They are documented here: http://orgmode.org/manual/var.html#var, a bit more than halfway down the long page.
All the best, Tom Ian Barton <li...@wilkesley.net> writes: > Thanks Thomas that works fine. Can you point me to where indexable > variables are documented, as my feeble search skills seem to be > faiing. > > Ian. > > On 30/10/12 16:25, Thomas S. Dye wrote: >> Aloha Ian, >> >> Will indexable variable values do what you want? Something like :var >> data=monthly_total_mileage[0:-3,]? >> >> hth, >> Tom >> >> >> Ian Barton <li...@wilkesley.net> writes: >> >>> I am using gnuplot to plot some data from a table: >>> >>> #+tblname: monthly_total_mileage >>> |-------+----------| >>> | Month | Distance | >>> |-------+----------| >>> | Jan | 272.04 | >>> | Feb | 317.11 | >>> | Mar | 354.27 | >>> | Apr | 288.21 | >>> | May | 488.35 | >>> | Jun | 444.92 | >>> | Jul | 497.21 | >>> | Aug | 625.35 | >>> | Sep | 821 | >>> | Oct | 717.9 | >>> | Nov | | >>> | Dec | | >>> |-------+----------| >>> | Total | 4826.36 | >>> |-------+----------| >>> >>> >>> #+begin_src gnuplot :var data=monthly_total_mileage :file >>> ./monthly_total_mileage.png >>> reset >>> >>> set boxwidth 0.5 >>> set xlabel 'month' >>> set ylabel 'distance, km' >>> >>> plot data u 2:xticlabels(1) notitle with boxes fs solid 0.5 >>> #+end_src >>> >>> Ideally I want Babel to ignore the Totals row, so it doesn't get >>> processed and plotted by gnuplot. Is there any way of doing this? I want >>> to publish the data in several formats, some of which require me to >>> display the total and some of which don't. >>> >>> Any other workarounds gratefully accepted. >>> >>> Ian. >>> >>> >> > > > -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com