Re: Re: Some problems with times in a spreadsheet

From: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Burtzlaff <andy13@gmx.net>
Cc: Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Some problems with times in a spreadsheet
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:23:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c480e04.a8e8d80a.7362.fffff361@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp9zc3fr.fsf@gmx.net>

I always use the formula editor even when I have a single formula. It will
even highlight in the cells in the table related to the construct where the
cursor is in (the region pointed by @-II..@-I, for instance). It also makes
easy to change a cell reference using shift+arrows.

To make it short, it is better to understand the single line below the
table with all formulas as the place where org stores the formulas, and not
the place where you should manually edit them.

--
Darlan

At Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:43:04 +0200,
Andreas Burtzlaff <andy13@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Op woensdag 21 jul 2010 15:46 CEST schreef Juan:
> >
> >>> | # | Total hours | 16@ 15' 0" | 18@ 5' 0"  |
> >>> | ^ |             | totalTime1 | totalTime2 |
> >>> |---+-------------+------------+------------|
> >>> #+TBLFM: $totalTime1=vsum(@-II..@-I); f2 :: $totalTime2=vsum(@-II..@-I); f2
> >>
> >>> First of all I would like to see 16.25 instead of 16@ 15' 0". Is this
> >>> possible?
> >>
> >> Calc's "deg" function does this.
> >>
> >> use deg(vsum(...)) in the formulas
> >
> > That works. Thanks. I should learn calc. ;-}
> >
> > I now have (I already made changes):
> >     |---+-------------+--------------+--------------|
> >     | # | Total hours | 14.00        | 6.00         |
> >     | ^ |             | totalTime1   | totalTime2   |
> >     |   | Hourly rate | 40           | 50           |
> >     | ^ |             | hourRate1    | hourRate2    |
> >     | # |  To declare | 560.00       | 300.00       |
> >     | ^ |             | declaration1 | declaration2 |
> >     |---+-------------+--------------+--------------|
> >     #+TBLFM: $totalTime1=deg(vsum(@-II..@-I)); f2 :: $totalTime2=deg(vsum(@-II..@-I)); f2 :: $declaration1=$totalTime1*$hourRate1; f2 :: $declaration2=$totalTime2*$hourRate2; f2
> >
> > This works. One strange thing (not important I think, but I mention
> > it), I needed to recalculate twice. The first time the 'Total hours'
> > was displayed correctly, only the second time 'To declare' was
> > displayed correctly.
> >
> > I have two formula's that I have to write for every column, I still
> > would like to now if there is a way to only write them once.
> 
> No, I'm afraid not.
> 
> > I am not very happy with the long line of formula's. Especially when I
> > have to repeat formula's. Would something like this be possible?
> >     #+TBLFM: $totalTime1=deg(vsum(@-II..@-I)); f2 ::
> >              $totalTime2=deg(vsum(@-II..@-I)); f2 ::
> >              $declaration1=$totalTime1*$hourRate1; f2 ::
> >              $declaration2=$totalTime2*$hourRate2; f2
> >
> 
> The formula editor ( C-c ' ) will display the formulas one per line and
> make duplicating and changing them much easier.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Andreas
> 
> > This would at least make updating repeating formula's easier and
> > easier to check.
> 
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