"Daniel E. Doherty" <d...@ddoherty.net> writes: > I often use org table to perform calculations and export those tables > to LaTeX documents. > > One thing I always wished I could do with org tables is get it to > allow numbers to be decorated with currency symbols, the dollar, euro, > yen, etc., as well as grouping commas so that the tables are more > suitable for presentation.
You can, for example, do | 1 USD | 2 USD | 4 USD | 7 USD | #+tblfm: $4=vsum($1..$3) Emacs calc is able to work with arbitrary ascii symbols or even units. However, calc does not appear work with unicode. If Emacs calc were to support unicode, it would automatically work in Org. Also, you can enable latex in calc via (setq org-calc-default-modes '(calc-internal-prec 12 calc-float-format (float 8) calc-angle-mode deg calc-prefer-frac nil calc-symbolic-mode nil calc-language latex ;; <--- this is new compared to default calc-date-format (YYYY "-" MM "-" DD " " Www (" " hh ":" mm)) calc-display-working-message t)) Then, the following will work | \dollar1 | \dollar2 | \dollar3 | 6 \dollar | #+tblfm: $4=vsum($1..$3) Best, Ihor