[O] [ANN] orgtbl-join

[Thierry Banel]

Hi The List

I am glad to announce the orgtbl-join package.

It merges Org tables. A master table is enriched with material from a
reference table.

Example. This master table is a cooking recipe, with ingredients
and quantities (gramms).

| food     | quty |
|----------+------|
| onion    |   70 |
| tomatoe  |  120 |
| eggplant |  300 |
| tofu     |  100 |
| corn     |  250 |
| tomatoe  |   90 |

We also have a reference table of nutrition facts (freely borrowed
from Nut-Nutrition, http://nut.sourceforge.net/, by Jim Jozwiak).

#+tblname: nut
| food     | Fiber | Sugar | Protein | Carb |
|----------+-------+-------+---------+------|
| eggplant |   2.5 |   3.2 |     0.8 |  8.6 |
| tomatoe  |   0.6 |   2.1 |     0.8 |  3.4 |
| onion    |   1.3 |   4.4 |     1.3 |  9.0 |
| egg      |     0 |  18.3 |    31.9 | 18.3 |
| rice     |   0.2 |     0 |     1.5 | 16.0 |
| bread    |   0.7 |   0.7 |     3.3 | 16.0 |
| orange   |   3.1 |  11.9 |     1.3 | 17.6 |
| banana   |   2.1 |   9.9 |     0.9 | 18.5 |
| tofu     |   0.7 |   0.5 |     6.6 |  1.4 |
| nut      |   2.6 |   1.3 |     4.9 |  7.2 |
| corn     |   4.7 |   1.8 |     2.8 | 21.3 |

Then, typing M-x orgtbl-join, the recipe get enriched with nutrition
facts:

| food     | quty | Fiber | Sugar | Protein | Carb |
|----------+------+-------+-------+---------+------|
| onion    |   70 |   1.3 |   4.4 |     1.3 |  9.0 |
| tomatoe  |  120 |   0.6 |   2.1 |     0.8 |  3.4 |
| eggplant |  300 |   2.5 |   3.2 |     0.8 |  8.6 |
| tofu     |  100 |   0.7 |   0.5 |     6.6 |  1.4 |
| corn     |  250 |   4.7 |   1.8 |     2.8 | 21.3 |
| tomatoe  |   90 |   0.6 |   2.1 |     0.8 |  3.4 |

Documentation here:
https://github.com/tbanel/orgtbljoin

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Tha package is available on MELPA.
To enable MELPA, add those lines to your .emacs:
  (require 'package)
  (add-to-list
     'package-archives
     '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/";) t)
  (package-initialize)

Then browse the 2000 available packages (and growing)
by typing:
  M-x package-list-packages

Comments, use-cases, help, criticisms, etc. welcome.
Have fun
Thierry Banel