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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
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To: Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>
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Hi Giovanny,

yes, that is right, only field references are allowed for direct  
assignment.
Columns or ranges are allowed only as arguments of functions that will  
collapse them into a scalar.

- Carsten

On Jan 18, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi, Carsten,
>>
>> On the left
>> side of equations you can only have single fields
>> like @2$3
> ok this works
>> or a column like $3.
> But this does /not/ work: see the example "columns $3"
>
>>> Org-mode version 6.34
>>> GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-07-30 on SOFT- 
>>> MJASON
> Example:
> -------------------------------------------------
> * [2010-01-15 ven] table & reference
> ** table a
> #+TBLNAME: Taba
> |   | # |  x | y |
> |---+---+----+---|
> |   | 1 | -2 | 4 |
> |   | 2 | -1 | 1 |
> |   | 3 |  0 | 0 |
> |   | 4 |  1 | 1 |
> |   | 5 |  2 | 4 |
> | ^ |   |    | a |
> ** table b
> *** columns $3
> |   |   |   |
> |   |   |   |
> |   |   |   |
> |   |   |   |
> |   |   |   |
> |---+---+---|
> |   | ^ | b |
> #+TBLFM: $3=remote(Taba,$3)
>
>>
>> Looks like someone needs to write a tutorial about that! :-)
>>
> When I'll have finally understood ;-)
>
> Giovanni

- Carsten