[Orgmode] Re: Organizing a students live

[Daniel Martins]

In fact, it helps! Thanks

However a sentence like this:


+# a class that meets every Monday evening between February 16 and
April 20, 2009
** Class 7:00pm-9:00pm
<%%(and (= 1 (calendar-day-of-week date)) (diary-block 2 16 2009 4 20 2009))>

is not an example of simplicity and visibility for a quite common feature!

Maybe as a suggestion we could encapsulate such a huge expression in a
simpler org-mode function ?

Daniel


PS In

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiaryMode#toc12

I found another suggestion which I do not know how to include in org-mode


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Schedule

If you want to write a schedule for school or university, you need to
define a block (it’s derived from diary-block) between two dates and a
weekday. The following function also recognizes holidays and won’t
send you to school on those days… :)

    (defun diary-schedule (m1 d1 y1 m2 d2 y2 dayname)
      "Entry applies if date is between dates on DAYNAME.
    Order of the parameters is M1, D1, Y1, M2, D2, Y2 if
    `european-calendar-style' is nil, and D1, M1, Y1, D2, M2, Y2 if
    `european-calendar-style' is t. Entry does not apply on a history."
      (let ((date1 (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
                    (if european-calendar-style
                        (list d1 m1 y1)
                      (list m1 d1 y1))))
            (date2 (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
                    (if european-calendar-style
                        (list d2 m2 y2)
                      (list m2 d2 y2))))
            (d (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian date)))
        (if (and
             (<= date1 d)
             (<= d date2)
             (= (calendar-day-of-week date) dayname)
             (not (check-calendar-holidays date))
             )
             entry)))

Then: "&%%(diary-schedule 22 4 2003 1 8 2003 2) 18:00 History"


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2009/12/20 Matt Lundin <address@hidden>:
> Daniel Martins <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> All academics here present (including of course Carsten) suffer from
>> the same problem, I think
>>
>>
>> *** Math classes
>> <2009-12-10 Thu 11:00-14:00 +1w>
>>
>>
>> will repeat forever and ever...
>>
>> We need to create a schedule for a period.
>>
>> The package "remind" (and its simple interface "wyrd") do this job
>> wonderfully but I do not know how to deal with this problem in Org
>> mode
>
> The following FAQ should help:
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#diary-sexp-in-org-files
>
> - Matt
>