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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>,
	nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
	mail@christianmoe.com, Izzie <ml_orgmode.kapush@antichef.net>
Subject: Re: tables: is it possible to use a comma instead of a period as a number delimiter
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:08:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3351.1305569284@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> of "Mon, 16 May 2011 19:54:07 +0200." <3C583BAF-3DBD-4123-8B33-AB71FDBACFF9@gmail.com>

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 16.5.2011, at 15:23, Christian Moe wrote:
> 
> > On 5/16/11 2:20 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> >> When the OP says he needs this for accounting, I guess
> >> he is exporting this data somehow?  How about changing
> >> from dot to comma only in one of the export hooks?
> >=20
> > Ah... sanity. Yes.
> >=20
> > And just in time, too, as I was ready to unleash on Izzie the ultimate =
> accountant's nightmare -- a fragile "with-comma" macro to allow using =
> comma as decimal separator in Org spreadsheets with Lisp formulas.
> 
> :)  Interesting!  But maybe not really practical.
> We can start a file on worg, org-madness.org, next to org-hacks.org...?
> 

... with a prize for the craziest idea: maybe a t-shirt with an Escher-like
impossible unicorn[fn:1]. To your infinite relief, I'll let Bastien's artist friend
design it :-)

Nick

Footnotes:

[fn:1] impossible unicorn - hmm...

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-16 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-15 23:12 tables: is it possible to use a comma instead of a period as a number delimiter Izzie
2011-05-16 10:05 ` Michael Brand
2011-05-16 11:26   ` Christian Moe
2011-05-16 12:20     ` Carsten Dominik
2011-05-16 13:23       ` Christian Moe
2011-05-16 17:54         ` Carsten Dominik
2011-05-16 18:08           ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-05-16 20:46             ` Carsten Dominik

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