From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Table questions Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:39:32 +0100 Message-ID: <2e0d22172cf3b7e6c936629ea9466569@science.uva.nl> References: <1oac1qih6j.fsf@bass.biostat.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GwEyA-0004Rw-4u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:39:38 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GwEy9-0004RL-DU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:39:37 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwEy9-0004RC-7f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:39:37 -0500 Received: from [146.50.4.51] (helo=imap.science.uva.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GwEy9-0000Kg-2Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:39:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eddward DeVilla Cc: Michael , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I have no plans to make something as complicated as this work with the orgtbl mode. I agree it would be nice to have, but I would not know where to start. - Carsten On Dec 15, 2006, at 17:08, Eddward DeVilla wrote: > I'll follow this up with a few more wishes. Could the table minor > mode maybe be extended to allow the user to define delimiters? Say > draw a picture? > > struct hugeStaticTable initData = { > // Draw a picture > // ORG-ROW-DEF { /* key*/ $1 , /* name */ $2 , /* location */ { /* > x */ $3 , /* y */ $4 } , /* comment*/ $5 }, > { /* key */ 0, /* name */ "Bob", /* location */ { /* x */ 10.0, /* y > */ 3.2 }, /* comment */ "You know. Bob! Bob. Good times... Good > times..." } > { /* key */ 1, /* name */ "Joe", /* location */ { /* x */ 5.5, /* y > */ 4.4 }, /* comment */ "One fine batter." } > ... > }; > > I code with a lot of static tables that are populated by hand. > Keeping them formatted is critical to keeping the code maintainable. > I'd think that this example might be too much for the table-minor > mode, but if there were a way to at least define a row beginning, end > and field separator, it might help. > > struct S d = { > // ORG-ROW-DEF '{' ',' '}' > { f1 , f2 , f3 , f4 } > .... > > }; > > On 12/14/06, Michael wrote: >> >> I recently started using org-mode and love its table feature. Here >> are some >> questions that I have: >> >> 1. In table calculation, how to refer to a cell in a different column >> and >> different row? Specifically, I want column 8 row 5 to be the >> ratio of >> column 7 row 5 and column 7 row 4. >> >> 2. I think the table minor mode would be a fantastic tool in editing >> tables >> in a LaTeX file. I wonder whether it is possible to let orgtbl >> recognize >> \begin{tabular}\end{tabular} and use & as column delimiter rather >> than | >> (also respect end of line \\)? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > -- Carsten Dominik Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 NL-1098SJ Amsterdam phone: +31 20 525 7477