From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey Brent McBeth Subject: Re: org-table relative reference questions Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:38:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20150420143811.GC16503@broggs.org> References: <20150420133528.GB16503@broggs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35017) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkCqJ-000325-Rl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:38:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkCqG-0000eh-Ge for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:38:35 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.230]:28316 helo=cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkCqG-0000cs-CD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:38:32 -0400 Received: from williwaw ([10.0.1.2]) by broggs.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1YkCqE-0006eK-FB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:38:30 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=broggs.org) by williwaw with esmtp (Exim 4.84_RC1) (envelope-from ) id 1YkCpw-00022M-7l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:38:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150420133528.GB16503@broggs.org> 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@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:35:28AM -0400, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: > I'm looking for a way to reference a row or column on both the left side and right side of a table formula that is "easily" manipulable. > > At first, I thought the hline references would work for me @I..@II, except they cannot be used on the left side of an equation. I hoped that maybe named fields would work (^,_), but those are apparently value aliases and not location references. To be clear, for my use case, I think functional hline references on the left side would be sufficient. I started going down the ^_ route because I thought it might give me an out, the notation is tons messier. Jeffrey McBeth -- "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." -- Mark Twain