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* minor niggles concerning tables
@ 2007-06-04 16:05 William Henney
  2007-06-04 19:12 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: William Henney @ 2007-06-04 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Carsten

Every time I use org's tables I am amazed at how powerful and easy
they are. There are just a couple of annoyances that I repeatedly come
across, and which I thought I'd better report.

* minor niggles concerning tables
** org-table-toggle-coordinate-overlays
   This is great, but it is less useful than it might be because it
   uses the notation A1, B2, etc, whereas the canonical notation (as
   used by org-table-eval-formula and in the TBLFM line) is @1$1,
   @1$2. This introduces quite a cognitive load in translating between
   the two, especially since one is row-major while the other is
   column-major.
** 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?

Cheers

Will

-- 

  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia

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