From: Charles <millarc@verizon.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggested change to Manual 3.5.9 example table
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:32:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFE291F.2020301@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8313.1342046771@alphaville>
On 7/11/2012 6:46 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Charles,
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Charles <millarc@verizon.net> wrote:
>>> All I was trying to say that example should be corrected since it is
>>> confusing.
>> And here I was thinking you are asking about the format specifier! :-p
>>
>> Since you have already put in the effort to correct the table, how about
>> submitting it as a patch to doc/org.texi? You could also take this
>> opportunity to improve the text somewhat. :)
>>
> I replied to Charlie's original message but from the tenor of the replies here
> I gather nobody saw my message? But I just checked gmane and it's there, so
> I'm not sure any more: did anybody see it? Here's the message body again just
> in case:
>
> Charles <millarc@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I have searched the news groups concerning this and found nothing.
>>
>> I am attempting to learn the advance features for tables and could not
>> understand 29.7 as the result for $at=vmean(@-II..@-I);%.1f.
>>
>> I copied the table and formulas into a scratch org file, changed the
>> floating point to .2f and the result was 25.00, which I believe is
>> correct. I changed it back to .1f and 25.0 was the result.
>>
>> Is the result as given in the manual supposed to demonstrate some
>> concept that is not evident to me?
>>
> Good one.
>
> It *may* have been intended to illustrate the difference between rows
> marked with # and unmarked rows; e.g. if you go back and change a grade
> in Sam's row and press TAB, then the # rows are recalculated but the
> unmarked one is not. So the 29.7 might have been a (now incorrect)
> remnant of a previous calculation that would have been corrected in the
> next global recalculation.
>
> However, if that's the case, a more extensive explanation would
> certainly be welcome.
>
> Nick
>
>
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Nick,
I did read your reply. I thought you were suggesting the reason why the
error occurred (which makes a lot of sense) and you were inviting
further explanation from whoever drafted that section of the manual.
As to submitting a patch - Thank you but I have to pass, even for such a
tinychange. Downloading, installing and learning git is a project slated
for later this year.
Charlie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-12 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-11 14:11 Suggested change to Manual 3.5.9 example table Charles
2012-07-11 14:26 ` suvayu ali
2012-07-11 22:23 ` Charles
2012-07-11 22:38 ` suvayu ali
2012-07-11 22:46 ` Nick Dokos
2012-07-12 1:32 ` Charles [this message]
2012-08-02 15:41 ` Bastien
2012-08-02 17:44 ` Charles
2012-07-11 15:30 ` Nick Dokos
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