From: "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: minor niggles concerning tables
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:05:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41c818190706040905s2c44d931r1321ffa03773839e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi Carsten
Every time I use org's tables I am amazed at how powerful and easy
they are. There are just a couple of annoyances that I repeatedly come
across, and which I thought I'd better report.
* minor niggles concerning tables
** org-table-toggle-coordinate-overlays
This is great, but it is less useful than it might be because it
uses the notation A1, B2, etc, whereas the canonical notation (as
used by org-table-eval-formula and in the TBLFM line) is @1$1,
@1$2. This introduces quite a cognitive load in translating between
the two, especially since one is row-major while the other is
column-major.
** numbers like "1.e3"
I am in the (lazy) habit of omitting the zero after the decimal
point in scientific notation. This causes no problems in most
programming languages, or for calc.el, but it is misinterpreted in
table formulae. Is it possible to easily fix this?
Cheers
Will
--
Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia
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2007-06-04 16:05 William Henney [this message]
2007-06-04 19:12 ` minor niggles concerning tables Carsten Dominik
2007-06-04 20:42 ` William Henney
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