diary entry to count

diary entry to count

[Raimund.Kohl]

Hi,

I am looking for a way to tell the calender programm to remind me of
starting a certain discourse no every 1st of each month for a period of
the next 12 months. Somehow I don't have a clue how to do that. Inserting
i-d on the calender would be easy but then I don't know how to let emacs
count (say 1st of Sept No 1, 1st of Nov No 3 ... etc) or to stop after 12
month (that is to not repeat on the 1st of the 13th month); inserting
cyclic would be easy to count but then the cyclic argument is a number of
days which vary between 30 and 31 (not to mention Feb). Can anybody help?
Thank you.

ray

Re: diary entry to count

[Raimund.Kohl]

On 9 Sep 2002, Edward M. Reingold wrote:

> If you want such entries only, say from Sept 1, 2002 until Aug 1, 2003, you
> would use a diary sexp such as
>
> %%(and (= (extract-calendar-day date) 1)
>        (<= (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian date)
>            (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(8 1 2003)))
>        (>= (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian date)
>            (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian '(9 1 2002)))) Blah blah

absolutely breathtaking, that is, at least for me :-) wow ... but %d for
counting the Discourse No don't work ... how do I do this - for that is
the crux to that, otherwise I just would have pressed i-m and that it
would have been. I am looking for calender/diary telling me (e.g.)

    1st of Sept - Discourse No 1

or later

    1st of Nov - Discourse No 3


Thank you anyway,

ray

Re: diary entry to count

[Edward M. Reingold]

>>>>> "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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