Re: [PATCH] document parent property update in column view

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Hendrik Tews <hendrik@askra.de> writes:

> ---
>  doc/org.texi | 12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thank you. Could you provide an appropriate commit message and use "git
format-patch" to send your patch? See
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html for details.

Also, note that Texinfo expects sentences to end with two spaces.

> -(@pxref{Column view}).
> +(@pxref{Column view}). For certain applications Org mode can compute and
> +update certain properties, @pxref{Column attributes}.

certain properties (@pxref{Column attributes}).


> +When the column definition contains a summary type, Org mode computes the
> +value for parent nodes (i.e., those nodes that contain children nodes). If

---i.e., those nodes that contain children nodes.

> +the property is present in the parent node, its value is ignored during the
> +computation, but Org mode will update the parent property with the computed
> +value afterwards. The computation happens when column view is started and
> +when values are updated using the column view interface, @pxref{Using
> column

view interface (@pxref{Using column view})

> +view}. A missing value in a leaf node is treated as zero and can cause
> +unexpected results, for instance for the @code{mean} summary type.

The last sentence is only true when the summary function expects
numbers.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou