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Re: diary entry to count
From: |
Edward M. Reingold |
Subject: |
Re: diary entry to count |
Date: |
09 Sep 2002 19:56:09 -0500 |
>>>>> "RK" == Raimund Kohl <Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de> writes:
RK> that it would have been. I am looking for calender/diary telling me
RK> (e.g.)
RK> 1st of Sept - Discourse No 1
RK> or later
RK> 1st of Nov - Discourse No 3
Oh--I misunderstood. use
%%(diary-first-of-month 20 9 2002) Discourse No %d
for 20 months starting October 1, 2002, where you have the following in your
.emacs
(defun diary-first-of-month (n month year)
"Cycle diary entry.
Entry applies on the first of the month for N months starting MONTH, DAY, YEAR.
ENTRY can contain `%d' or `%d%s'; the %d will be replaced by the number of
months since MONTH 1, YEAR and the %s will be replaced by the ordinal ending
of that number (that is, `st', `nd', `rd' or `th', as appropriate."
(let* ((cycle (+ 1 (* 12 (- (extract-calendar-year date) year))
(- (extract-calendar-month date) month))))
(if (and (= (extract-calendar-day date) 1)
(< 0 cycle)
(<= cycle n))
(format entry cycle (diary-ordinal-suffix cycle)))))
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