Thanks for the answer. I used to do this, too, and am aware of this possibility. I find it kind of clutters up the org file and was happy to find a way to avoid this. I will return to this if I need to, but would prefer to adapt the more elegant way to do it, if there is a way.
Many thanks again Rainer Am Fr., 22. Apr. 2022 um 16:23 Uhr schrieb Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk>: > > On Friday, 22 Apr 2022 at 16:15, Rainer Thiel wrote: > > I use Org-Mode to schedule most everything, including my lectures > > which typically are recurring events. > > Instead of using diary s-expressions, what I do is create one entry for > the first lecture, say, and then use org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift > to create the copies, typically shifted by 1 week. Then I go through > the created entries and delete those weeks that need to be omitted. > > Maybe not as elegant but works very well and it's what I've been doing > for years now for my own lectures. > > -- > : Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.5.3-397-g81289b in Emacs 29.0.50 -- Prof. Dr. Rainer Thiel Institut für Altertumswissenschaften 07737 Jena, Germany (EU) r.th...@uni-jena.de