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From: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: getting calc-units working in table formulas
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:39:52 +0100
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To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
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Hi Eric

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
<eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Lastly, is there a way to both use output formatting, and retain the
> unit name (if desired)? Right now I get this:
>
> | km    | units | conversion |
> |-------+-------+------------|
> | 2.5km | ft    |    8202.10 |
> #+TBLFM: $3=uconvert($1, $2); %.2f
>
> Ie, the "ft" falls off the results when I add the "%.2f". Is it possible
> to retain that and have formatting?

Yes, see
"org-spreadsheet: formatting chops off units"
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/59928

Michael