Re: simple spreadsheet question - hlines affecting formulas

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: "Sullivan, Gregory (US SSA)" <gregory.sullivan@baesystems.com>
Cc: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: simple spreadsheet question - hlines affecting formulas
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:23:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <866870FD-69AB-44EE-8E07-0BD35FB6B995@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73kku8$6ti3h@dmzms99901.na.baesystems.com>

Relative row specifications do not cross horizontal separator lines,  
this is documented in the manual.

- Carsten

On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Sullivan, Gregory (US SSA) wrote:

> The following spreadsheet behaves as expected, and every time I hit  
> C-c* on the "Total" row, the formula recalculates to 0.4
>
> | Name  | Percent |
> | Foo   |      .1 |
> | Bar   |      .3 |
> | Total |     0.4 |
> #+TBLFM: @4$2=vsum(@2..@-1)
>
> The following spreadsheet is exactly the same, and has exactly the  
> same formula for cell @4$2, except that I've added horizontal  
> lines.  I thought horizontal lines are ignored during calculations,  
> but now whenever I hit C-c* on the "Total" row, the vsum seems to  
> include the value of @4$2, which I expected would be left out of the  
> "@2..@-1" range.
>
>
> |-------+---------|
> | Name  | Percent |
> |-------+---------|
> | Foo   |      .1 |
> |-------+---------|
> | Bar   |      .3 |
> |-------+---------|
> | Total |     2.8 |
> |-------+---------|
> #+TBLFM: @4$2=vsum(@2..@-1)
>
>
> Is this a bug?
> Thanks.
>
> --Greg
> --
> Gregory T. Sullivan, Ph.D.
> BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies
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>
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