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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: mail@christianmoe.com
Cc: henry atting <nsmp_02@online.de>,
	nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
	Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: wrap long table formula
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:40:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8957.1320158456@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> of "Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:29:17 BST." <4EAF9FCD.6070605@christianmoe.com>

Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:

> On 11/1/11 8:17 AM, henry atting wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking of a column formula but have no clue if it's
> > possible and if so, how.
> >
> > In this short example the formula's length is no problem but for a
> > table with 12 rows or more it certainly is; -- and currently it's the
> > only way I can realize it.
> >
> > |   |   |
> > |---+---|
> > | 2 |   |
> > | 6 | 4 |
> > | 7 | 5 |
> > #+TBLFM: @3$2=vmean(@2$1..@3$1::@4$2=vmean(@2$1..@4$1
> 
> 
> |   |     |
> |---+-----|
> | 2 |     |
> | 6 |   4 |
> | 7 |   5 |
> | 3 | 4.5 |
> | 9 | 5.4 |
> #+TBLFM: @3$2..@>$2=vmean(@2$1..@0$1)
> 

Another common way to deal with an exceptional cell is to use a field
formula for the exceptional cell and a column formula for the rest:
field formulas take precedence:

#+TBLFM: @2$2 = string("") :: $2 = vmean(@2$1..@0$2)

Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-01 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-31 14:01 wrap long table formula henry atting
2011-10-31 14:05 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-31 14:21   ` henry atting
2011-10-31 18:10     ` Samuel Wales
2011-10-31 19:12       ` Carsten Dominik
2011-11-01  7:17         ` henry atting
2011-11-01  7:29           ` Christian Moe
2011-11-01 14:40             ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-11-01 18:53               ` henry atting
2011-11-01 19:13                 ` Nick Dokos

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