Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > Patrick O'Neill <p...@umbc.edu> wrote: > > > I just wanted to give a quick word of thanks to Bernt Hansen and > > everyone else answering questions on the emacs-orgmode list.=C2=A0 Since > > the mailing list is publicly archived, answered questions can remain > > useful to others long after the original respondents have probably > > forgotten about them.=C2=A0 This answer > > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00057.html) > > from 2008 was very useful to me and no doubt to others as well. > >=20 > > Amen to that! But also thanks for pointing out those solutions - I > either missed them the first time around or I forgot about them - > probably the latter, but I cannot remember :-) : I took a look, was > entirely mystified, tried them out, and I think I understand the last > two (after spending some time with the formula debugger - and there > might be some documentation lacunae that need to be filled there), but > the first solution gives me errors and I have no idea what it is trying > to do or how it goes about it: Bernt (or somebody else - I'm not picky), > can you please provide an explanation? Does it still work? If so, how? > > Thanks, > Nick > > For reference: (See the link provided by Patrick for details on the others: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-08/msg00055.html) > > The problem (raised by Daniel Sinder) is to automatically > number the rows of a table and Bernt's first solution goes like this > (this is my attempt to replicate it, hence the errors - in the post, > the row numbers are correct): > > > * one > > | Row | Data Column 1 | Data Column 2 | > |--------+----------------+---------------------| > | #ERROR | some data | more data | > | #ERROR | some more data | even more data | > |--------+----------------+---------------------| > | #ERROR | and more | that's all | > | #ERROR | still more | yup, you guessed it | > |--------+----------------+---------------------| > #+TBLFM: $1=3Dfind(@address@hidden,$2) >
Address rewriting by the list/archive manager: the original formula was #+TBLFM: $1=find(@I$2..@III$2,$2) Never mind ;-) Nick PS. But corruptions like this are a problem if we want to use the list archives as repositories of knowledge.
