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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells (was: org-table with different conventions: decimals)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:18:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsiw4gke.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsix6uaq.fsf@mat.ucm.es>

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>> Org tables use Emacs' calc under the hood by default.
>> AFAIK, calc is unable to use "," as decimal point because it is reserved
>> as a vector separator. Which is why you got the vector addition in your
>> example.
>
> Thanks. I was afraid that the issue was with calc not with org-mode.

Note that you can instead use Elisp formulas. See 3.5.3 Emacs Lisp forms
as formulas. It is more flexible.

Alternatively, we may implement the comma separators as a built-in
feature. Org table formulas already support notations like

| 3,5 | 4,2 | 7 |
#+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2;N

or

#+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2;E
#+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2;L

(see 3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc)

we may as well implement something like ";Nc" that will interpret cells
as numbers with "," as decimal point separator.

Is there such a demand?

Best,
Ihor

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-20  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-18  6:57 org-table with different conventions: decimals Uwe Brauer
2022-07-18 23:02 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-19  6:20   ` [export to CSV] (was: org-table with different conventions: decimals) Uwe Brauer
2022-07-19 11:07     ` [export to CSV] Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-19 13:31 ` org-table with different conventions: decimals Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-19 14:39   ` Uwe Brauer
2022-07-20  3:18     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-07-20  5:56       ` [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells Uwe Brauer
2022-07-20 13:19         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-20 14:00       ` [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells (was: org-table with different conventions: decimals) Christian Moe

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