From: Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can this table formula be done more efficient
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 09:06:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG-LmmBGR077UG3WuUhZD-c5pmmMyjTncrvhuqb7YUC0TCPfSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738ffsg6z.fsf@gmail.com>
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2014-06-08 15:07 GMT+02:00 Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>:
> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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 I don't believe so but my belief may be out of date.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.
>
> Sort of but not really. See "Using multiple #+TBLFM lines" in the
> manual.
>
That I found. Is handy, but only for debugging. But with the shortened
formula line, it is less of a problem.
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Cecil Westerhof
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2014-06-08 10:19 Can this table formula be done more efficient Cecil Westerhof
2014-06-08 11:53 ` Nick Dokos
2014-06-08 13:07 ` Eric Schulte
2014-06-09 7:06 ` Cecil Westerhof [this message]
2014-06-09 7:04 ` Cecil Westerhof
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