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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can this table formula be done more efficient
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 07:53:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx7vk482.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAG-LmmD0sNL3KOi=fbbq3CRru4x1QwZhDuuxyULkeBPThEjUvQ@mail.gmail.com

Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com> writes:

> At the moment I am using the following formula:
>     #+TBLFM: @<<$4..@>>$4 = $2 - $3 :: @>$2=vsum(@<<$2..@>>$2) :: @>$3=vsum(@<<$3..@>>$3) :: @>$4=vsum(@<<$4..@>>$4)
>
> This does what I want, but there are two things that could be improved.
>
> - The second, third and fourth formula do exactly the same, only on different columns. Could this be rewritten to one formula?
>

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+TBLFM: @<<$4..@>>$4 = $2 - $3 :: @>$2..$4=vsum(@<<$0..@>>$0)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

See (info "(org) References")

> - The line becomes long and hard to evaluate for a person. Is there a possibility to put the formulas below each-other?
>

I don't believe so but my belief may be out of date. It has been
discussed before: check the list archives.

-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-08 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-08 10:19 Can this table formula be done more efficient Cecil Westerhof
2014-06-08 11:53 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-06-08 13:07   ` Eric Schulte
2014-06-09  7:06     ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-06-09  7:04   ` Cecil Westerhof

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