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From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [babel] RFC: column and row names in babel tables
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:09:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ochpd7db.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdbx91fl.fsf@nar.taruti.net> (Taru Karttunen's message of "Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:30:54 +0300")

Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net> writes:

> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:03:55 -0400, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>   New behaviour: by default all languages will *drop all hlines* from
>>   tables in input. We shall make no attempt to reinstate hlines in the
>>   output[1] *Do we want some way for the user to control hlines in the
>>   output?*

Hi Taru,

Thanks for responding.

>
> Why not an empty row?
>
> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
> |---+---+---|
> | 4 | 5 | 6 |
>
> would become: [[1,2,3], [], [4,5,6]].

One problem is that in some languages, org tables are converted into a
matrix-like data structure, not simply a list-of-lists. An example is R
(and I think also gnuplot). So in those languages, all rows must be the
same length. Also, I believe that hlines are ignored when computing
indexes in Org table formulas, so I thought that omitting hlines would
make indexing in babel languages more consistent with indexing in org.

Dan


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-10  0:03 [babel] RFC: column and row names in babel tables Dan Davison
2010-04-11 20:30 ` Taru Karttunen
2010-04-11 21:09   ` Dan Davison [this message]

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