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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Breaking up long #+TBLFM line?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:42:09 -0500
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"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi Karl,
>
> Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> * Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>> Is there any way to break up an overly long #+TBLFM line?
>>
>> The question is: why?
>
> Because, purely aesthetically, I don't like having a #+TBLFM line which
> is 240 characters long when the window (and the table in it) is less
> than chars wide.
>
>> My guess: you're missing the C-c ' (org-edit-special) which offers
>> you a user-friendly way to modify formulas.
>
> You're right, I did know about C-c ' but not with table formulae.  Nice!
>
> However, I still don't like the long #+TBLFM, although it's not going to
> kill me.
>

That's good, because I think you'll have to live with it :-)

There is support for multiple TBLFM lines, but not in the way you want:
they are alternatives, rather than cumulative - see

(info "(org) Editing and debugging formulas")

the section entitled "Using multiple #+TBLFM lines".

--
Nick