From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-table with different conventions: decimals
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:31:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1wp44bk.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgh6gb78.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> In my current setting, the following works
>
> | 3.5 | 4.2 | 7.7 |
> #+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2
>
> Now if I want to switch to the convention used in Germany (that might be
> relevant if I want to export it later to csv, but this is a different
> topic) does work in a strange way, any comments? I would expect
>
> | 3,5 | 4,2 | (7, 7) |
> #+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2
>
>
> | 3,5 | 4,2 | 7,7 |
> #+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2
Org tables use Emacs' calc under the hood by default.
AFAIK, calc is unable to use "," as decimal point because it is reserved
as a vector separator. Which is why you got the vector addition in your
example.
Best,
Ihor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-19 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-18 6:57 org-table with different conventions: decimals Uwe Brauer
2022-07-18 23:02 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-19 6:20 ` [export to CSV] (was: org-table with different conventions: decimals) Uwe Brauer
2022-07-19 11:07 ` [export to CSV] Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-19 13:31 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-07-19 14:39 ` org-table with different conventions: decimals Uwe Brauer
2022-07-20 3:18 ` [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells (was: org-table with different conventions: decimals) Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-20 5:56 ` [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells Uwe Brauer
2022-07-20 13:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-20 14:00 ` [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells (was: org-table with different conventions: decimals) Christian Moe
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