To add tables, type a tab statement for the first table and follow it with:

where axis_names is the same number of axis names as appears on the tab statement.

Another way of combining tables is to add them together. Quantum can add tables by placing them one on top of the other and adding the corresponding cells in each table, or by offsetting them so that, for example, the cells in row 1 of the first table are added to those in row 3 of the second.

The easiest way of adding two tables is to add all cells in the first row of the first table to the corresponding cells in the first row of the second table, and so on. All that’s needed is a tab statement to create the first table followed by an add statement generating the second, for example:

This example creates the table ax02 by bk02 and adding it to the table ax01 by bk01.

A practical example might be an office equipment survey in which a set of 3-column fields store the number of different makes of typewriter that each company owns. If the first ten fields refer to manual typewriters and the next ten refer to electric typewriters, you might want a table showing the total number of typewriters of each brand owned.

If you write:

the row for Brand A indicates how many Brand A manual and electric typewriters each company owns. This example uses inc= to count the number of typewriters rather than using c= to note the presence or absence of typewriters.