Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes: I have not done that exactly, but here is some code that does manipulate timestamps: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/02/05/Add-time-to-a-deadline/
It is not quite what you want, but it might be a good start. > It's been a couple of days so I'll try restate this question more > clearly. I'm hoping it's possible to do something like this: > > * Week one (<2014-09-09>) > * Week two (EVALUATE A LISP EXPRESSION THAT INSERTS A TIMESTAMP ONE > WEEK LATER THAN LAST TIMESTAMP FOUND IN BUFFER) > > I don't have much experience with babel so I'm not sure how to do > this, but if it's possible I would love some hints. Thanks as always, > > Matt > > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I've asked this before, but that was a year or two ago and am hoping >> someone has an idea now, perhaps involving babel or something. >> >> every year at this time I rewrite a set of syllabi. I do a lot of >> moving htings around while i'm oding it, and at the end I have to >> enter a whole bunch of dates somewhat laboriously. I have headlines >> that look about like either like this: >> >> ----------------- >> * Outline >> ** Week 1: Topic Title (<2013-09-10>) >> Longish Description >> *** Reading >> - Article 1 >> - Article 2 >> *** Lab >> *** Notes >> ----------------------------------- >> >> or like this: >> ---------------------- >> * Outline >> ** Week 1: <2013-09-09> >> *** Seminar: Technology and Society (<2013-09-10>) >> *** Reading >> - Article 1 >> - Article 2 >> *** Plenary: Global Citizenship (<2013-09-13>) >> -------------------- >> >> I would like to replace the timestamps with code that dynamically >> generates timestamps based on the value either in the last sibling >> headline, or the parent headline. It seems to me this ought to be >> possible, but I'm not at all sure how to do it. i would really >> appreciate any guidance. thanks! >> >> Matt > > -- ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
