From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:56:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edyg499x.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fsiw4gke.fsf@localhost
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>>> "IR" == Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>
>>> Org tables use Emacs' calc under the hood by default.
>>> AFAIK, calc is unable to use "," as decimal point because it is reserved
>>> as a vector separator. Which is why you got the vector addition in your
>>> example.
>>
>> Thanks. I was afraid that the issue was with calc not with org-mode.
> Note that you can instead use Elisp formulas. See 3.5.3 Emacs Lisp forms
> as formulas. It is more flexible.
Can you give me an example?
> Alternatively, we may implement the comma separators as a built-in
> feature. Org table formulas already support notations like
> | 3,5 | 4,2 | 7 |
> #+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2;N
Not sure I understand this
| 3,5 | 4,2 | 7 | (7, 7) | (7, 7) |
| | | | | |
#+TBLFM: $3=$1+$2;N::$4=$1+$2;E::$5=$1+$2;L
> (see 3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc)
> we may as well implement something like ";Nc" that will interpret cells
> as numbers with "," as decimal point separator.
> Is there such a demand?
> (see 3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc)
> we may as well implement something like ";Nc" that will interpret cells
> as numbers with "," as decimal point separator.
> Is there such a demand?
I think others should speak up, all I can say
1. «,» is the standard in German speaking countries, while
2. «'» is the standard in Spanish speaking countries
For the separator.
In my use case I need to generate ods documents that use the
German language setting, org-mode however relying on calc needs the
notation that the «.» Separate digits while in German it is the «,».
I solve this issue by exporting my org-table to csv, set scalc to German
as a default language, and then import the csv file, using American
English.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-20 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-18 6:57 org-table with different conventions: decimals Uwe Brauer
2022-07-18 23:02 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-19 6:20 ` [export to CSV] (was: org-table with different conventions: decimals) Uwe Brauer
2022-07-19 11:07 ` [export to CSV] Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-19 13:31 ` org-table with different conventions: decimals Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-19 14:39 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-07-20 3:18 ` [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells (was: org-table with different conventions: decimals) Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-20 5:56 ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2022-07-20 13:19 ` [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-20 14:00 ` [feature] Allow "," decimal point in table cells (was: org-table with different conventions: decimals) Christian Moe
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