You could do something like this:
* Table 1 #+name: table1 | Manufacturer | Name | Price | |-----------------+-------------+-------| | ACME | super cheep | 25 $ | | Roadrunner Inc. | Kaboom | 27 $ | | ACME | cheep | 30 $ | #+RESULTS: resorted | Manufacturer | Name | Price | |-----------------+-------------+-------| | ACME | super cheep | 25 $ | | ACME | cheep | 30 $ | | Roadrunner Inc. | Kaboom | 27 $ | ** Code for resorting #+name: resorted #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var data=table1 :colnames t (sort data (lambda (row1 row2) (string< (first row1) (first row2)))) #+END_SRC John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 4:57 AM Axel Kielhorn <org-m...@axelkielhorn.de> wrote: > Hello! > > I have a table that I want to show with two different sorting orders but I > don’t want to maintain the data twice. > > > * Table 1 > > | Manufacturer | Name | Price | > |-----------------+-------------+-------| > | ACME | super cheep | 25 $ | > | Roadrunner Inc. | Kaboom | 27 $ | > | ACME | cheep | 30 $ | > > * Table 2 > > | Manufacturer | Name | Price | > |-----------------+-------------+-------| > | ACME | cheep | 30 $ | > | ACME | super cheep | 25 $ | > | Roadrunner Inc. | Kaboom | 27 $ | > > Is there a way to do this in org? > Right now I copy the table and apply an =C-c ^ a= on the first column. > > Greetings > Axel >
