From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kyle Meyer Subject: Re: Typo in Org Manual Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 04:45:43 +0000 Message-ID: <875zfi851k.fsf@kyleam.com> References: <87eeu8kzyj.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jA4rs-0007Qg-9I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2020 23:45:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jA4rr-0001fy-9q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2020 23:45:48 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:57342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jA4rq-0001WE-Rq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2020 23:45:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87eeu8kzyj.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: sebastian.miele@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Sebastian Miele writes: > In an example for Org table range references it says: > > =E2=80=98@2$1..@4$3=E2=80=99 six fields between these two fields (same = as =E2=80=98A2..C4=E2=80=99) Oh, that mistake has been around for a long time. > However, it are nine fields instead of six. If we were to simply replace "six" with "nine", I think the description could still be confusing because it's ambiguous whether "between" includes the ends. (I would tend to read the above description as exclusive.) How about "nine fields between and including these two fields"? Any other suggestions?