From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ayvango <ayvango@zoho.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: column view extension
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:50:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjje4ss8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <134e8528ba1.-5851758924314670245.5302843484598427533@zoho.com> (ayvango@zoho.com's message of "Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:50 -0800")
ayvango <ayvango@zoho.com> writes:
> I've found a non-standard use case for org-mode.
I don't think there is a *standard* use case for org! ;-)
> There is plenty of spreadsheets engine with common drawback:
> spreadsheet cells follow original memory cell abstraction that are
> handy for a computer but is inconvenient for human. Hierarchical
> structures is more natural and in some cases may be used much more
> effective for at almost half of the data models.
Indeed. And I like your particular example. Enjoy!
> This method saves me a lot of time but it may not be used with other
> hierarchical data models as simply as for the army list. This models
> may require more complicated summary types than those provided from
> ground. Is there any way to incorporate abstract grammar for defining
> and processing properties. There is already a way to define
> synthesized attributes as well as inherited ones. But there is no way
> to bind them together with a function to calculate output.
I cannot answer this, whether any such way exists or not, but I can add
my +1 if what you want is not possible.
--
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1
: using Org-mode version 7.8.03 (release_7.8.03.138.gbf1d5)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-17 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-16 21:00 column view extension ayvango
2012-01-17 8:50 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2012-01-17 19:33 ` Michael Brand
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