The plugin is intended to allow usage of formulas in tables, which are computed for the rendered version of the table. In source mode, or while editing, the formulas are visibile, in live-preview or read mode, the formulas are replaced by computed values. The plugin treats tables as spreadsheets, translating cells and ranges to the values, expanding and computing if necessary the referenced cells. The table is divided in columns (labeled from 'a' to 'z', and numerical rows)
After expanding the expressions are evaluated using mathjs, therefore supporting many functions from there. Ranges between [ ... ] are expanded as matrices, and can be used for matrix operations.
most of the functions from
If the result is a vector or a matrix the output will be expanded to multiple cells, and the references for those cells are recomputed.
The references supported are in [a-z][0-9]+ format (lowercase)
Besides this a1 reference style, the cells can be referenced using colum-row notation: [0-9]+c[0-9]r, where c stands for column and r stands for row. So for addressing the b3 cell we could also write 2c3r (column 2, row 3).
The column-row notation supports also relative referencing by adding a + or - before the number.
Combinations of the two are possible:
=b+3rcell at columnb, 3 rows down.=2c7cell at column 2 (which is b), row 7 the row-column notation is intended to be used mainly as a relative reference, for example getting the value above the curent cell:=+0c-1r(zero columns to the right, the row above)
summing all the values in the curent column from the second row to the cell above the curent one: =sum(+0c2:+0c-1r)
The cells that influence the curent cell, are called parents, and the ones that depend on the curent cell are called children. Hovering the mouse over a cell, shows both the parents and the children, in customizable colors. This makes it easier to track the flow of data in the sheet. The colors can be customized for the dark theme and for the light theme.
If a cell while trying to be resolved loops back to itself, then a loop error is thrown and displayed. This is also valid for matrix operations, where a cell influences multiple cells.
| plums | bananas | fruits |
| ----- | ------- | ------ |
| 5 | 12 | =a2+b2 |
[+-]?[0-9]+r[+-]?[0-9]+c:
examples:
-2c+1r: two columns left, one row down-0c-1r: same column, 1 row up
| plums | bananas | fruits |
| ----- | ------- | ------------------ |
| 5 | 12 | =(-2c+0r)+(-1c+0r) |
| 7 | 5 | =(-2c+0r)+(-1c+0r) |
examples:
a+1r: column a, 1 row down
| plums | bananas | fruits |
| ----- | ------- | --------------- |
| 5 | 12 | =sum(a2:b4) |
| 7 | 5 | =sum(a2:b4) >20 |
| 9 | 7 | |
| plums | bananas | fruits |
| --------------- | ------------- | --------------- |
| 5 | 12 | =sum(a2:b4) |
| 7 | 5 | =sum(a2:b4) >20 |
| 9 | 7 | |
| =sum(a2:+0c-1r) | =sum(b2:b-1r) | |
ranges in [ ... ]
formula is only in one cell, but fills values outside of it's cell
values that don't fit in the existing table are disgarded
| plums | bananas | fruits |
| ----- | ------- | ---------------- |
| 5 | 12 | =[a2:a4]+[b2:b4] |
| 7 | 5 | |
| 19 | 10 | |
| m1 | | | | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | | =transpose([a2:c4]) | | |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | | | | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | | | | |
| m1 | | | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------- | --- |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | | =diag([a2:c4]) | |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | | | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | | | |
| m1 | | | | r1 | | r2 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------------- | --- | --------------- |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | | =[a2:c4]\*[1,1,1] | | =sum(a+0r:c+0r) |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | | | | =sum(a+0r:c+0r) |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | | | | =sum(a+0r:c+0r) |
=det([a2:c4])
| m1 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | =det([a2:c4]) | ||
| 4 | 5 | 7 | |||
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
| m1 | | | | r1 | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------------------- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | | =([a2:c4]>=5).\*[a2:c4] | | |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | | | | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | | | | |
| label | | numeric |
| ----- | ----------------- | --------- |
| 3 | =isNumeric([a:a]) | =sum(b:b) |
| not | | |
| 2 | | |
| pen | | |
| apple | | |
| =pi | | |
| inch | cm |
| ------- | ------------------- |
| 12 inch | =to(unit(a2), "cm") |
| 5 inch | =to(unit(a3), "cm") |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | e | f | |
|:-----------------------------------:| --- | --- | --- | ------------------- | --- | ----------- |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 1 | |
| 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 1 | |
| 1 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| =sum(f7:g9) | 3 | 1 | | | | |
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| =diag([a2:c4])\*diag([a2:c4]) | | | | =transpose([a3:c5]) | 0 | |
| =dotMultiply(diag([a2:c4]),[a2:a4]) | | | 3 | 0 | | |
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| =dotMultiply([a2:c4],[d2:f4]) | | | | | | =sum(d7:f9) |
| | | | | =sum(a:f) | | |
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