Re: [O] table formula help...

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Michael Brand <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Eric
>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> #+NAME: counts
>> | Piece          |  Chars | Lines | Translator       |
>> +----------------+--------+-------+------------------+
>> | 凤凰           |        |    84 | Austin Woerner   |
>> | 王血           |   6633 |       | Eric Abrahamsen  |
>> | 赵氏孤儿       |  16984 |       | Canaan Morse     |
>> | 山鬼故家       |        |    24 | Lucas Klein      |
>> | 寂静何其深沉   |        |    10 | Lucas Klein      |
>>
>> And the second:
>>
>> #+NAME: payments
>> #+CONSTANTS: prose=0.7 poetry=10
>> | Translator       | Total Chars | Total Lines | Payment |
>> |------------------+-------------+-------------+---------|
>> | Austin Woerner   |             |             |         |
>> | Eric Abrahamsen  |             |             |         |
>> | Canaan Morse     |             |             |         |
>> | Lucas Klein      |             |             |         |
>
> Thierry Banel recently announced orgaggregate:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?idxname=emacs-orgmode&max=100&sort=date:late&query=%2Bsubject:"%5BANN%5D+Aggregate+Table";
>
> For a solution with only built-in functionality see the example
> test-org-table/org-lookup-all in the Org source file
> testing/lisp/test-org-table.el
> http://orgmode.org/w/org-mode.git?p=org-mode.git;a=blob;f=testing/lisp/test-org-table.el
>
> Michael

Thanks to you and Thomas! From your answers, it appears I'm asking for
something more complicated than I thought. I'm going to see if I can
manage the solution by re-structuring the tables. Either way, I'll take
a look at the links and see what I can learn.

Thanks again,
Eric