From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: "András Major" <andras.g.major@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: Babel: asymptote: erroneous conversion of heterogeneous-typed table
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:50:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxesjs9e.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110829T123802-490@post.gmane.org> ("András Major"'s message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:42:45 +0000 (UTC)")
András Major <andras.g.major@gmail.com> writes:
>> Why? You can always write an intermediary step to "stringify" every
>> cell. Choose your language. Nick Dokos showed you one way.
>
> Apparently, only if you set a global/per-user option in .emacs or suchlike,
> which I think is a bad way of doing it.
-----
#+tblname: mixed-types
|1|x|5|
|3|y|4|
#+source: stringify(table=mixed-types)
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(concat "string[][] myvar={{"
(mapconcat
(lambda (row)
(when (listp row)
(concat (mapconcat (lambda (el) (format "\"%s\"" el)) row ",") "}")))
table
",{")
"};")
#+end_src
#+source: myplot
#+begin_src asymptote :noweb yes :file myplot.png
<<stringify(mixed-types)>>
unitsize(3cm);
draw((0,0)--(1,1));
#+end_src
#+results: myplot
[[file:myplot.png]]
----
It may be ugly, but it works.
> I don't think this is misuse in any way. Consider a table which is a
> result of your research: the columns are the maker (e.g., "Mazda"), the
> type (e.g., "MX-5"), engine displacement (a number), the mileage/fuel
> consumption (a number), etc., and I want to create some asymptote plot
> from this data.
How would you would you specify it to Asymptote? You can't.
You would probably use:
string[][] cars={{"Mazda","MX-5","1.5"}};
And that's exactly my point: engine displacement may be a number, but
you would have to enter it as a string.
Though, you insist on being able to enter it as a number anyway, hoping
ob-asymptote will do the magic behind. How could it, since the language
can't itself?
Perhaps there should be a way in Babel (not specifically in Asymptote)
to output a table with raw strings. Because want you really want to use
is:
|"1"|"x"|"5"|
|"3"|"y"|"4"|
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-29 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-29 8:00 Bug: Babel: asymptote: erroneous conversion of heterogeneous-typed table Major A
2011-08-29 8:47 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-29 9:12 ` András Major
2011-08-29 9:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-29 10:42 ` András Major
2011-08-29 12:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2011-08-29 16:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-29 16:52 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-29 17:27 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-29 18:02 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-29 18:50 ` András Major
2011-08-29 19:02 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-29 19:11 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-30 19:12 ` András Major
2011-08-30 19:34 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-30 20:45 ` András Major
2011-08-30 20:55 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-31 6:48 ` András Major
2011-08-31 8:17 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-31 9:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-31 12:14 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-29 9:05 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-29 9:40 ` András Major
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