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From: henry atting <nsmp_02@online.de>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: henry atting <nsmp_02@online.de>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, mail@christianmoe.com,
	Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: wrap long table formula
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:53:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrbjptbu.fsf@bye.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8957.1320158456@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:40:56 -0400")

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/1/11 8:17 AM, henry atting wrote:
>> 
>> > I was thinking of a column formula but have no clue if it's
>> > possible and if so, how.
>> >
>> > In this short example the formula's length is no problem but for a
>> > table with 12 rows or more it certainly is; -- and currently it's the
>> > only way I can realize it.
>> >
>> > |   |   |
>> > |---+---|
>> > | 2 |   |
>> > | 6 | 4 |
>> > | 7 | 5 |
>> > #+TBLFM: @3$2=vmean(@2$1..@3$1::@4$2=vmean(@2$1..@4$1
>> 
>> 
>> |   |     |
>> |---+-----|
>> | 2 |     |
>> | 6 |   4 |
>> | 7 |   5 |
>> | 3 | 4.5 |
>> | 9 | 5.4 |
>> #+TBLFM: @3$2..@>$2=vmean(@2$1..@0$1)
>> 
>
> Another common way to deal with an exceptional cell is to use a field
> formula for the exceptional cell and a column formula for the rest:
> field formulas take precedence:
>
> #+TBLFM: @2$2 = string("") :: $2 = vmean(@2$1..@0$2)
>
> Nick

Thanks again to all, both solutions are working fine; I could get rid of my
tapeworm formula.

Is there a place where these advanced features are explained more thoroughly?

henry

-- 
http://literaturlatenight.de

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-01 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-31 14:01 wrap long table formula henry atting
2011-10-31 14:05 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-31 14:21   ` henry atting
2011-10-31 18:10     ` Samuel Wales
2011-10-31 19:12       ` Carsten Dominik
2011-11-01  7:17         ` henry atting
2011-11-01  7:29           ` Christian Moe
2011-11-01 14:40             ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-01 18:53               ` henry atting [this message]
2011-11-01 19:13                 ` Nick Dokos

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