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From: "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: minor niggles concerning tables
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:42:15 -0500
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On 6/4/07, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>
> In fact, org-table-eval-formula understands both kinds of references.
>

Yes, of course, silly me!

> Yes, I agree, this is hard and a bit unfortunate.  If I could
> start from scratch, I would make but the same, but for backward
> compatibility I cannot.

Understood.

> The right setting of this variable is important in particular for the
> formula editor (C-c ').  Have you ever tried it?
>

No. Thanks for the pointer.

> > ** numbers like "1.e3"
> >   I am in the (lazy) habit of omitting the zero after the decimal
> >   point in scientific notation. This causes no problems in most
> >   programming languages, or for calc.el, but it is misinterpreted in
> >   table formulae. Is it possible to easily fix this?
>
> Interesting bug!  Fixed as well, thank you very much.
>

Great.

Cheers

Will

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  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronom=EDa y Astrof=EDsica,
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