From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: Can't import a remote reference to a whole column in orgtbl Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 07:15:24 +0200 Message-ID: <78F3D228-8E40-49AC-A58C-510AB9031203@gmail.com> References: <82e274891002251643k327135aajea270914244abff7@mail.gmail.com> <82e274891002251654s643e8003pdb2b3db669d5528b@mail.gmail.com> <83d3zs8hya.fsf@yahoo.it> <789851DE-3D35-4623-AB0A-E4168A5A178E@gmail.com> <4BB8E250.8090404@alumni.ethz.ch> <77A0A719-665A-493B-9FFA-7FC17F7EA485@gmail.com> <4BB97F0C.6080009@alumni.ethz.ch> <4BBA2B48.4080801@alumni.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nz2CM-0004rg-Te for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:23:42 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39387 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nz2CL-0004rY-9o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:23:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nz2CF-00073V-6G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:23:41 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f214.google.com ([209.85.219.214]:65168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nz2CF-000739-1M for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:23:35 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so75989ewy.32 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:23:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BBA2B48.4080801@alumni.ethz.ch> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Michael Brand Cc: Org-Mode List Hi Michael, this is neat, but still kind of hard to do, because you have to put all these formulas there by hand. I am skipping this for the manual - maybe you'd like to put this into org-hacks, or into the FAQ on Worg? Thanks. Also: On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:26 PM, Michael Brand wrote: > > -@noindent For the second example, table FOO must have at least as > many rows > -as the current table. Inefficient@footnote{The computation time > scales as > -O(N^2) because table FOO is parsed for each field to be copied.} > for large > -number of rows. "At least" because you can also put a partial column into a shorter column in the new table. - Carsten > +@noindent For the second example, table FOO should have at least as > many rows > +as the current table to avoid orphaned fields. > Inefficient@footnote{The > +computation time scales as O(N^2) because table FOO is parsed for > each field > +to be copied.} for large number of rows. For the third example, > table FOO > +should have at least as many columns as the current table has rows > to avoid > +orphaned fields. By applying this column formula to each column an > entire > +table can be transposed. Inefficient in the same way as the second > example. > > @subsubheading Named references > @cindex named references > --- a/ORGWEBPAGE/Changes.org > +++ b/ORGWEBPAGE/Changes.org > @@ -437,8 +437,10 @@ respectively. These can be useful in so > example, to sequentially number the fields in a column, use > ~=@#~ as column equation. > > -One application is to copy a column from a different table. See > -the manual for details. > +Other applications are to copy a column from a different table to a > +column, to copy a row from a different table transposed to a column > +or to copy an entire table while transposing it. See the manual for > +details. > > Thanks to Michael Brand for this feature. > > ====================================================================== - Carsten