[PATCH] manual: How to refer to tables in other files

[PATCH] manual: How to refer to tables in other files

[William Denton]

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Attached is a very small update to the docs about how to refer to tables in 
other files.  Probably there's something wrong with the formatting, but git 
send-email didn't work, and I hope the Changelog entry gets through.

Why the Nu HTML Checker line got included I don't know ... some whitespace 
thing, I guess.

Bill

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William Denton
https://www.miskatonic.org/
Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
Toronto, Canada

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From fcbebdc9d88c0016d9789b141300209eeca40ef4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:23:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] manual: How to refer to tables in other files

* doc/org-manual.org (Passing arguments): Note
other-file.org:example-table syntax
---
 doc/org-manual.org | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org
index 977ef80b9..0fa0a9d06 100644
--- a/doc/org-manual.org
+++ b/doc/org-manual.org
@@ -3563,7 +3563,7 @@ replacement text.  Here is an example:
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
 (setq org-link-abbrev-alist
       '(("bugzilla"        . "http://10.1.2.9/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=")
-        ("Nu Html Checker" . "https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=%h") 
+        ("Nu Html Checker" . "https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=%h")
 	("duckduckgo"      . "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s")
         ("omap"            . "http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=%s&polygon=1")
         ("ads"             . "https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=%20author%3A\"%s\"")))
@@ -16980,6 +16980,9 @@ Here are examples of passing values by reference:
   | two | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
   #+end_example
 
+To refer to a table in another file, join the filename and table name with
+a colon, for example: =:var table=other-file.org:example-table=.
+
 - list ::
 
   A simple named list.
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2.17.1

Re: [PATCH] manual: How to refer to tables in other files

[Timothy]

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Hi  William,

Thanks for sending in this patch. Documentation improvements are always great to
see. I’ve just applied your patch with minor tweaks to the commit message, and
the “Nu HTML” bit removed as d700c03 🙂.

William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:

> Attached is a very small update to the docs about how to refer to tables in
> other files.  Probably there’s something wrong with the formatting, but git
> send-email didn’t work, and I hope the Changelog entry gets through.
>
> Bill

All the best,
Timothy