On 18 Dec 2006, Carsten Dominik wrote: > On Dec 14, 2006, at 17:19, Michael wrote:
> > 1. In table calculation, how to refer to a cell in a different column and > > different row? Specifically, I want column 8 row 5 to be the ratio of > > column 7 row 5 and column 7 row 4. > You cannot, at least currently. I am not sure how well this would > work, because the table editor makes it very easy to swap rows, columns, > to add and delete columns, and such references would become invalid > unless one would carefully track these changes. I agree that you probably don't want to exactly replace the full power of Excel. But this simple feature makes it possible to keep track of simple data. I won't mind having to redo the formula after row swapping etc., which I think won't happen so often for a given table anyway. > Having said this, I do want to do a bit more in this direction, but > this is nowhere near completion. > > 2. I think the table minor mode would be a fantastic tool in editing tables > > in a LaTeX file. I wonder whether it is possible to let orgtbl recognize > > \begin{tabular}\end{tabular} and use & as column delimiter rather than | > > (also respect end of line \\)? > Yes, I think it would and I have been thinking to make this possible. > However, once I allow this, people will want to use \multicolumn, and > this seems for me to be beyond the scope. I think you can ignore the rows with multicolumn in it, which would satisfy most people I imagine. > Have you tried > M-x align-current RET > in a LaTeX table? It does wonders. I'll try that. Thanks very much for all the hard work, Michael _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode