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From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Manipulating Dates Automatically in a Headline
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:20:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec9Yg5puM3RqKtDXRB1jMJB+=s2xqVx6BgJwBXdjxJW+bQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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

next             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-11 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-11 18:20 Matt Price [this message]
2014-08-13 13:37 ` Manipulating Dates Automatically in a Headline Matt Price
2014-08-13 19:29   ` Samuel Wales
2014-08-13 23:23   ` John Kitchin
2014-08-15  1:14   ` John Kitchin

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