From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Computations on properties
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:50:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li22mwvw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20131009T141208-743@post.gmane.org
Thierry Pellé <thierry.pelle@soliavos.fr> writes:
Hi,
> I'm seeking how to do something like that
>
> Let the following text inserted in an org-mode file
>
> * Mean Calculation
> :PROPERTIES:
> :VAL1: 5
> :VAL2: 10
> :COEF: 10
> :END:
>
> I would like to append the result of a computation
> like RES=(VAL1*COEF+VAL2)/(COEF+1)
>
> Something like
> * Mean Calculation
> ...
> :END:
>
> Mean Calculation=RES (where RES is the value of the result)
>
> I think to do this with a python script but is there a more org-mode/emacs
> method to do it?
>
> Thanks
> Thierry
>
> PS: I don't want to use org spreadsheet
But that would probably be the appropriate tool. Otherwise you could use
the property API in an elisp program
,------------------------------------------------------
| http://orgmode.org/manual/Using-the-property-API.html
`------------------------------------------------------
to read out the property values. Then do the calculation and finally add
a new property with the result.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 12:19 Computations on properties Thierry Pellé
2013-10-09 12:50 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2013-10-09 13:32 ` Thierry Pellé
2013-10-09 15:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-09 17:12 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-09 18:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-09 18:23 ` Eric Schulte
2013-10-10 4:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-09 19:27 ` Michael Brand
2013-10-10 6:39 ` Thierry Pellé
2013-10-10 9:04 ` Michael Brand
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