To elaborate on Michael's first suggestion, we will first give a name ("work") to the table:
#+TBLNAME: work | Chars | Lines | Translator | |-------+-------+-----------------| | | 84 | Austin Woerner | | 6633 | | Eric Abrahamsen | | 16984 | | Canaan Morse | | | 24 | Lucas Klein | | | 10 | Lucas Klein | Then typing C-c C-x i and answering the wizard questions, we get a new table as follow: #+BEGIN: aggregate :table "work" :cols "Translator sum(Chars) sum(Lines)" | Translator | sum(Chars) | sum(Lines) | |-----------------+------------+------------| | Austin Woerner | NA | 84 | | Eric Abrahamsen | 6633 | NA | | Canaan Morse | 16984 | NA | | Lucas Klein | 2 NA | 34 | #+END: Whenever you change the "work" table, you can easily refresh the aggregated table by typing C-c C-c To install the orgtbl-aggregate module, add those lines to your .emacs: (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t) (package-initialize) Then type M-x package-list-packages and install orgtbl-aggregate Have fun Thierry Le 06/12/2014 09:05, Michael Brand a écrit : > Hi Eric > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> > 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 > >