From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>,
nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
Patrick O'Neill <pon2@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: thanks
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:55:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4257.1313607301@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> of "Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:37:23 EDT." <4060.1313606243@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org>
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> Patrick O'Neill <pon2@umbc.edu> wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to give a quick word of thanks to Bernt Hansen and
> > everyone else answering questions on the emacs-orgmode list.=C2=A0 Since
> > the mailing list is publicly archived, answered questions can remain
> > useful to others long after the original respondents have probably
> > forgotten about them.=C2=A0 This answer
> > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00057.html)
> > from 2008 was very useful to me and no doubt to others as well.
> >=20
>
> Amen to that! But also thanks for pointing out those solutions - I
> either missed them the first time around or I forgot about them -
> probably the latter, but I cannot remember :-) : I took a look, was
> entirely mystified, tried them out, and I think I understand the last
> two (after spending some time with the formula debugger - and there
> might be some documentation lacunae that need to be filled there), but
> the first solution gives me errors and I have no idea what it is trying
> to do or how it goes about it: Bernt (or somebody else - I'm not picky),
> can you please provide an explanation? Does it still work? If so, how?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
> For reference: (See the link provided by Patrick for details on the others:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00055.html)
>
> The problem (raised by Daniel Sinder) is to automatically
> number the rows of a table and Bernt's first solution goes like this
> (this is my attempt to replicate it, hence the errors - in the post,
> the row numbers are correct):
>
>
> * one
>
> | Row | Data Column 1 | Data Column 2 |
> |--------+----------------+---------------------|
> | #ERROR | some data | more data |
> | #ERROR | some more data | even more data |
> |--------+----------------+---------------------|
> | #ERROR | and more | that's all |
> | #ERROR | still more | yup, you guessed it |
> |--------+----------------+---------------------|
> #+TBLFM: $1=3Dfind(@address@hidden,$2)
>
Address rewriting by the list/archive manager: the original formula was
#+TBLFM: $1=find(@I$2..@III$2,$2)
Never mind ;-)
Nick
PS. But corruptions like this are a problem if we want to use the
list archives as repositories of knowledge.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-16 17:11 thanks Patrick O'Neill
2011-08-17 18:37 ` thanks Nick Dokos
2011-08-17 18:55 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-08-17 18:59 ` thanks Nick Dokos
2011-08-17 22:27 ` thanks Bernt Hansen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-04-26 11:32 thanks Domenico Orlando
2007-09-18 8:15 Thanks Carsten Dominik
2007-09-18 9:43 ` Thanks Leo
2007-09-19 0:17 ` Thanks David O'Toole
2007-09-19 1:53 ` Thanks Bastien
2007-09-20 8:45 ` Thanks Carsten Dominik
2007-09-20 13:15 ` Thanks Bastien
2007-09-19 2:02 ` Thanks Russell Adams
2007-09-22 6:30 ` Thanks Carsten Dominik
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