"'Mash Thomas Herbert" wrote: > I was wondering if it was possible at all to use like a "variable" within a > document that would reference a table cell, and could then be > dynamically updated when the table cell was? > > The reason I ask is that I would like to have have tabular data held > in another document and then write my document referencing and > including the data within the text, so I only have to change the > external data and the document would be updated automatically. > > Example... > > #+TBLNAME: example > |-----+-----| > | Foo | Bar | > |-----+-----| > | 22 | 43 | > | 44 | 54 | > |-----+-----| > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, @remote(example,B2) consectetur adipiscing elit. > Nullam > vehicula lobortis sem, ut viverra lorem elementum quis. Etiam ac lacus > eu ante molestie vehicula. Maecenas sed viverra sem. Proin mattis > fermentum orci, sed tempus nibh feugiat eget. > > Would become... > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, 43 consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam > vehicula lobortis sem, ut viverra lorem elementum quis. Etiam ac lacus > eu ante molestie vehicula. Maecenas sed viverra sem. Proin mattis > fermentum orci, sed tempus nibh feugiat eget. > > Thoughts?
Use an Org Babel (inline) code block which extracts part of the table. See "indexing variables". Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban