From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: Using a table value within the text (dynamic variable)? Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:16:39 +0200 Message-ID: <861uaid4a0.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <20130409195910.GA4368@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org "'Mash Thomas Herbert" wrote: > I was wondering if it was possible at all to use like a "variable" within a > document that would reference a table cell, and could then be > dynamically updated when the table cell was? > > The reason I ask is that I would like to have have tabular data held > in another document and then write my document referencing and > including the data within the text, so I only have to change the > external data and the document would be updated automatically. > > Example... > > #+TBLNAME: example > |-----+-----| > | Foo | Bar | > |-----+-----| > | 22 | 43 | > | 44 | 54 | > |-----+-----| > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, @remote(example,B2) consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam > vehicula lobortis sem, ut viverra lorem elementum quis. Etiam ac lacus > eu ante molestie vehicula. Maecenas sed viverra sem. Proin mattis > fermentum orci, sed tempus nibh feugiat eget. > > Would become... > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, 43 consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam > vehicula lobortis sem, ut viverra lorem elementum quis. Etiam ac lacus > eu ante molestie vehicula. Maecenas sed viverra sem. Proin mattis > fermentum orci, sed tempus nibh feugiat eget. > > Thoughts? Use an Org Babel (inline) code block which extracts part of the table. See "indexing variables". Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban