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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: "Daniel E. Doherty" <ded-law@ddoherty.net>
Cc: Org-mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:43:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehy5gvbo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871uvp4v4v.wl%ded-law@ddoherty.net> (Daniel E. Doherty's message of "Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:01:52 -0500")

Hi Daniel,

Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net> writes:

> I noticed that the regular expression for recognizing what columns are
> numeric in a table for purposes of right-aligning does not pick up
> dollar values with commas.
>
> For example, $23,821,415.18 would be treated as "text" and left-aligned,
> which I don't believe is what one would expect.

To me, values that are right-aligned are those who are ready for further
computation, and letting $3 be right-aligned would be confusing.

But I understand your need.

Carsten, what do you think?

-- 
 Bastien

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-22 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-09 15:01 Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies Daniel E. Doherty
2011-10-22 10:43 ` Bastien [this message]
2011-10-22 14:07   ` Daniel E. Doherty

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