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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug in TBLFM
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:05:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DEBA93B0-CC4C-4379-9511-EA6434641B25@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <802006.57552.qm@web28306.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


On Feb 11, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:

> Hi, everybody,
>
> Org-mode version 6.22b
> GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-09-06 on SOFT-MJASON
>
> I found an unexpected behaviour, a bug ?, in TBLFM
> (well I've already reported it in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-01/msg00252.html
> but I didn't provide a report clear enough;
> ah, the importance of proper bug reports ;-)
>
> table (from manual):
>
> |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------|
> |   | Student | Prob 1 | Prob 2 | Prob 3 | Total | Note |
> |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------|
> | ! |         |     P1 |     P2 |     P3 |   Tot |      |
> | # | Maximum |     12 |     15 |     25 |       | 52.0 |
> | ^ |         |     m1 |     m2 |     m3 |    mt |      |
> |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------|
> | # | Peter   |     10 |      8 |     23 |       | 41.0 |
> | # | Sam     |      2 |      4 |      3 |       |  9.0 |
> |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------|
> |   | Average |        |        |        |  25.0 |      |
> | ^ |         |        |        |        |    at |      |
> | $ | max=10  |        |        |        |       |      |
> |---+---------+--------+--------+--------+-------+------|
> #+TBLFM: $6=vsum($P1..$P3)::$7=10*$Tot/$max;%.1f::$at=vmean(@-II..@- 
> I);%.1f
>
> BUG :
> A column can't be referred with its name,
> if it is left hand side of a formula.
>
> (Please try changing $6 with $Tot in the first formula )
>
> Well I don't know if this is a bug or a constrain in
> the implementation.
> This being the case I think it should be
> documented in the manual in the section (Field formulas) like:
> "The left hand side of a formula may also be a named field,
> but not a named column"

I have documented this limitation, thanks for the report.

- Carsten

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-13  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-11 15:43 bug in TBLFM Giovanni Ridolfi
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