Re: [Orgmode] Re: Feature request: Periodic events based on count of specific weekdays

2009-11-21 Thread David Bremner
Ben Finney wrote: >I'm surprised at this assertion. Just about every club or social >organisation, etc., that I've heard of that meets monthly, does so by >meeting “on the second Tuesday of the month” or equivalent monthly >specification. It's surely not seldom in my experience. I missed some co

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Feature request: Periodic events based on count of specific weekdays

2009-11-20 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Ben, On Nov 20, 2009, at 11:56 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Carsten Dominik writes: extending the date format would be a significant amount of work. The current time/date format is already complex to handle internally, mainly because it was build not with a clean design but step by step. I don

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Feature request: Periodic events based on count of specific weekdays

2009-11-20 Thread Samuel Wales
On 2009-11-20, Ben Finney wrote: > I'm happy to discuss different specifications; the latest one I proposed > was for discussion, and I'm not wedded to it. Is there a different > syntax that would make parsing easier, while still adding the feature > I've described? If this is done: For a discus

[Orgmode] Re: Feature request: Periodic events based on count of specific weekdays

2009-11-20 Thread Ben Finney
Carsten Dominik writes: > extending the date format would be a significant amount of work. The > current time/date format is already complex to handle internally, > mainly because it was build not with a clean design but step by step. I don't know anything about elisp. But isn't that an indicati