On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Matt Lundin <
mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
> Jeff Horn <
jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I was wondering how to create repeating tasks for, say, Tuesday and
>> Thursday at noon. I found this on stack overflow:
http://cl.ly/2K8c
>>
>> Is that really the best answer? Can this not be accomplished with
>> symbolic expressions?
>>
>> Seems like a great feature for academics and students. Surely, I'm
>> ignorant, and someone has a better solution than creating multiple
>> repeating tasks?
>
> AFAIK, one cannot use complex symbolic expressions with repeating tasks;
> the moment a headline with such an expression is marked done, it is
> removed from the agenda. The only solution, at the moment, is to create
> different entries for each desired day of the week:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> * Tuesday task
> SCHEDULED: <2010-09-14 Tue +1w>
>
> * Thursday task
> SCHEDULED: <2010-09-16 Thu +1w>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Best,
> Matt
>