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Cc: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>, nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, mail@christianmoe.com, Izzie <ml_orgmode.kapush@antichef.net>

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 16.5.2011, at 15:23, Christian Moe wrote:
> 
> > On 5/16/11 2:20 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> >> When the OP says he needs this for accounting, I guess
> >> he is exporting this data somehow?  How about changing
> >> from dot to comma only in one of the export hooks?
> >=20
> > Ah... sanity. Yes.
> >=20
> > And just in time, too, as I was ready to unleash on Izzie the ultimate =
> accountant's nightmare -- a fragile "with-comma" macro to allow using =
> comma as decimal separator in Org spreadsheets with Lisp formulas.
> 
> :)  Interesting!  But maybe not really practical.
> We can start a file on worg, org-madness.org, next to org-hacks.org...?
> 

... with a prize for the craziest idea: maybe a t-shirt with an Escher-like
impossible unicorn[fn:1]. To your infinite relief, I'll let Bastien's artist friend
design it :-)

Nick

Footnotes:

[fn:1] impossible unicorn - hmm...