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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Named fields in tables
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:44:00 +0100
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To: Uwe Jochum <uwe.jochum@uni-konstanz.de>
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This is correct, because "-" is an operator.  How would you tell the
difference between "$sum - 2" and "$sum-2"?

Is that not documented?  Damn I guess I assumed this to be
obvious.  Not so.

Thanks

- Carsten

On Mar 14, 2007, at 16:33, Uwe Jochum wrote:

> I've seen this in Orgmode (4.68): If you use named fields in an =
Orgmode
> table, the field name should not contain a "-", like in "sum-up". =
Field
> names with this sign don't work (you won't get an error message, but=20=

> the
> formula with that field name isn't computed). I hope others can verify
> this phenomenon.
>
> Sch=F6ne Gr=FC=DFe,
>
> Uwe
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