On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yet another question (I've had a bunch lately).
> >
> > In my syllabus I have a bunch of headings like this:
> >
> > * Outline: Semester 1
> > ** Introduction: What is History For?
> > ** History and the Public Sphere
> > ** Recursive Publics
> > ** Abundant Information and the Digitial Divide
> > ** Crowdsourcing
> >
> > (there are subheadings and text in between). While i'm planning I like
> > to move the headings around quite a bit, but it would be nice, while
> > I'm doing that, to still know what date the class meeting will take
> > place on. So I would like to do something like this:
> > * Outline: Semester 1
> > ** Introduction: What is History For? <2010-09-16 Thu>
> > ** History and the Public Sphere <<last timestamp+7 days >>
> > ** Recursive Publics<<last timestamp+7 days >>
> >
>
> "last timestamp" here refers to the date in previous item or last date
> class was held?
>
> to the previous timestamp, sorry.


> > So essentially, have something like a spreadsheet formula embedded in the
> > timestamp.  Does anyone have any ideas how I might jerryrig something
> like
> > that? It would certainly be helpful to me.
>
> The reference to spreadsheet like formula suggests that you want the
> date from previous item to be used to calculate the date for current
> item and a change in the former should cause an appropriate change on
> the latter. org-depend.el (in contrib/lisp) can be used to define the
> relationships but I don't know how you could link dates that way.
>
> Thanks for the pointer, but that file remains a little opaque to me! maybe
someone will explain itto me.  Thanks much for the help though.
.
matt