> Why? You can always write an intermediary step to "stringify" every > cell. Choose your language. Nick Dokos showed you one way.
Apparently, only if you set a global/per-user option in .emacs or suchlike, which I think is a bad way of doing it. > > Why isn't it possible to force ob-asymptote to make all cells strings? > > It is possible to force ob-asymptote to make all cells strings. But > I don't think ob-asymptote should try that hard to compensate users' > misuses of data types. I don't think this is misuse in any way. Consider a table which is a result of your research: the columns are the maker (e.g., "Mazda"), the type (e.g., "MX-5"), engine displacement (a number), the mileage/fuel consumption (a number), etc., and I want to create some asymptote plot from this data. If there is no way of doing this without requiring global/per-user settings, then I think that something must be changed. András
