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From: Philipp Kroos <philipp.kroos@t-online.de>
To: John Burns <epelle1@comcast.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem with floating holidays
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:58:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87624kbr8f.fsf@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001cdd04a$bfd902c0$3f8b0840$@net> (John Burns's message of "Sat, 1 Dec 2012 23:06:11 -0600")

"John Burns" <epelle1@comcast.net> writes:


> I am having problems with org-float and floating holidays, in particular the holiday of Thanksgiving, as an example.
>
> I have the following entry in my data file:
>
> * Anniversaries and Holidays
>
> #+CATEGORY: Holiday
>
> %%(org-float t 4 4) Thanksgiving
>
> I know that if I leave this in my file the agenda will show it every fourth Thursday of every month.
>
> How do I tell it that I only want it to happen in the month of November?
>
> I tried to enter the month 11 after the last 4 so that it appears as: %%(org-float t 4 4 11) Thanksgiving.
>
> This did not give me a correct result either.  I have reviewed the forums and the org manual for the answer, but could not find it.
>
> My Emacs version is 23.3.1 and my Org-Mode version is 7.7.
>
> I hope that someone out there has the answer.
>
> Thanking You In Advance,
>
> John


You tried the 11 at the wrong position, try
%%(org-float 11 4 4) Thanksgiving

Regards,
Philipp

      reply	other threads:[~2012-12-02 11:58 UTC|newest]

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2012-12-02  5:06 Problem with floating holidays John Burns
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