Bill-of-materials

[Frozenlock <frozenlock@gmail.com>]

Hi,

This is a much better version of the little add-on I've written:

Bill-of-materials (org-bom.el)

I've used this for over 6 months now, daily.
If you ever need to quickly make a quote for a client, or simply
make easy to-buy list, this should help you.

You can find the code here: http://pastebin.com/K11QpQ6Q

The tutorial is included with it, but here is an eye-friendly version:

http://frozenlock.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/bom-bills-of-materials/


Finally, just to tease you, this is a table generated from various
data gathered inside a buffer:

#+BEGIN: bom :total t :no-tag t :description t :price t
| Component       | Quantity | Price | Description  |
|-----------------+----------+-------+--------------|
| CDs             |       50 |       | Not DVDs     |
| Headset         |        1 |       | N/A          |
| Keyboard        |        3 |   120 | Used to type |
| Mouse           |        2 |       | N/A          |
| USB flash drive |       23 |       | N/A          |
|-----------------+----------+-------+--------------|
| TOTAL:          |          |   120 |              |
    #+TBLFM: @>$3=vsum(@I..@>>)
 #+END:


Enjoy!