Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-27 Thread Rainer Thiel
Hi Bastien, hi Nicolas, 2012/8/26 Bastien b...@altern.org: But I guess it's confusing to align numbers as if they were numbers, and to then tell the users well, they are not really numbers. I myself indeed was confused, but now that I know it only concerns aligning of numbers I have no problem

Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-27 Thread AW
Am Montag, 27. August 2012, 11:08:59 schrieb Rainer Thiel: ... As a user, I can say it would be an advantage when exporting org-files to LaTeX or ODT etc. Many thanks again and best wishes Rainer Exporting tables to LaTeX usually is not the last step, obviously you will compile the

Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-27 Thread Karl Voit
* Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: Rainer Thiel r.th...@uni-jena.de writes: I have seen that as of v. 7.9, org tables are supposed to accept commas as decimal points which is useful if you set up tables to be used in in files where continental conventions are expected to be

Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-27 Thread Nick Dokos
Karl Voit devn...@karl-voit.at wrote: * Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: Rainer Thiel r.th...@uni-jena.de writes: I have seen that as of v. 7.9, org tables are supposed to accept commas as decimal points which is useful if you set up tables to be used in in files where

Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-27 Thread Karl Voit
* Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com wrote: Karl Voit devn...@karl-voit.at wrote: Although I totally understand that numbers with commas should be made possible (I am a German speaking guy) I guess there will be even more issues in the future as long as cosmetics and functionality is not

Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-27 Thread Bastien
Hi all, instead of having the comma as a decimal mark in all the regexps offered by the customization interface of `org-table-number-regexp', I added the comma for a new choice, which has the most liberal definition for what is a number. Using this regexp as the default will confuse the users:

Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-26 Thread Bastien
Hi Rainer, Rainer Thiel r.th...@uni-jena.de writes: I have seen that as of v. 7.9, org tables are supposed to accept commas as decimal points which is useful if you set up tables to be used in in files where continental conventions are expected to be followed. But I cannot see this really

Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-26 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Rainer Thiel r.th...@uni-jena.de writes: I have seen that as of v. 7.9, org tables are supposed to accept commas as decimal points which is useful if you set up tables to be used in in files where continental conventions are expected to be followed. Actually, this more subtle. Tables

Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-26 Thread Bastien
Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com writes: But it only means such numbers will be properly aligned to the right. Internally, calculations still require dot separator. Mhh.. but many users might expect the calculation to happen just because those strings are aligned as numbers. The name of

Re: [O] comma as decimal point: bug?

2012-08-26 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Mhh.. but many users might expect the calculation to happen just because those strings are aligned as numbers. 3.5 will also be recognized and aligned as a number, but you can't expect calculations to happen on it either. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou