Re: radio tables in an org buffer

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>]

Hi Carsten,

On Dec 26, 2009, at 12:43 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Dec 25, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>
>> Aloha all,
>>
>> Is it possible to use radio tables and lists inside an org buffer?
>>
>> I'm writing and tangling LaTeX with Org-babel and it would be  
>> useful to leverage the LaTeX export capabilities of Org-mode,  
>> especially with tabular material, which is tedious to format by  
>> hand in LaTeX.
>>
>> Here's what it would look like in the Org-mode buffer:
>>
>>> * Sales figures table
>>> #+source: salefigures
>>> #+begin_src latex
>>> % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL salesfigures
>>> % END RECEIVE ORGTBL salesfigures
>>> #+end_src
>>>
>>>     #+ORGTBL: SEND salesfigures orgtbl-to-latex
>>>     | Month | Days | Nr sold | per day |
>>>     |-------+------+---------+---------|
>>>     | Jan   |   23 |      55 |     2.4 |
>>>     | Feb   |   21 |      16 |     0.8 |
>>>     | March |   22 |     278 |    12.6 |
>>>     #+TBLFM: $4=$3/$2;%.1f
>>>     % $ (optional extra dollar to keep font-lock happy, see  
>>> footnote)
>>
>> All the best,
>
> This looks as if it should work!
>
> - Carsten

And so it does!  The magic key, which most (all?) on the list probably  
understand already, is to call the function orgtbl-crtl-c-ctrl-c  
directly when the point is in the table.

All the best,
Tom