Re: Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-06-03 Thread Daniel E. Doherty
Thanks, I'll take a look at it. Cheers, On Thu, Jun 02 2022, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > "Daniel E. Doherty" writes: > >> Again, thanks for your thoughts. All, however, ruin the look of the >> tables. Could you, perhaps, point me to where in the vast org code, >> strings are converted to numbers

Re: Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-06-01 Thread Ihor Radchenko
"Daniel E. Doherty" writes: > Again, thanks for your thoughts. All, however, ruin the look of the > tables. Could you, perhaps, point me to where in the vast org code, > strings are converted to numbers in preparation for sending to calc? org-table-eval-formula could be a good starting point

Re: Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-05-31 Thread Daniel E. Doherty
Ihor, Again, thanks for your thoughts. All, however, ruin the look of the tables. Could you, perhaps, point me to where in the vast org code, strings are converted to numbers in preparation for sending to calc? I could then play with overriding the function and come up with a work-around.

Re: Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-05-27 Thread Ihor Radchenko
"Daniel E. Doherty" writes: > | Description | Amount | > |--+| > | Mortage | 125,000.26 | > | Credit Cards | 6,325.00 | > | Auto Loan| 14,853.00 | > |--+| > | Total| 1323.26| > #+TBLFM: @5$2=vsum(@I..@II) > > Note that

Re: Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-05-27 Thread Daniel E. Doherty
On Fri, May 27 2022, Ihor Radchenko wrote: Ihor, thanks for your thoughts, but this does not solve my problem. Here is an sample org table that exemplifies the problem: == #+begin_SRC emacs-lisp (setq org-calc-default-modes

Re: Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-05-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 27 May 2022 at 19:17, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > You are right. However, non-letter symbols do not work. Try, € or ☺️. Interesting. Seems rather strange but definitely the case. :-( I guess I've only ever used Greek symbols if not ASCII. -- : Eric S Fraga, with org

Re: Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-05-27 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Friday, 27 May 2022 at 16:22, Ihor Radchenko wrote: >> However, calc does not appear work with unicode. > > Are you sure? This works just fine for me with embedded Calc: > ... > δx := (b - a) / n => 0.01 > ... > Note use of δ. I use Greek characters all the time in

Re: Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-05-27 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 27 May 2022 at 16:22, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > However, calc does not appear work with unicode. Are you sure? This works just fine for me with embedded Calc: --8<---cut here---start->8--- n := 100 a := 0 b := 1.0 δx := (b - a) / n => 0.01 i :=

Re: Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-05-27 Thread Ihor Radchenko
"Daniel E. Doherty" 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

Allow Currency Symbols and Grouping Commas in Table Numbers

2022-05-26 Thread Daniel E. Doherty
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