On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:36 -0500, "Nick Dokos" <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > Yes, sorry: I figured that I had answered the wrong question after I > sent it, but I was too tired to fix my mistake at that time. However, I > could not make your formulation work for me at all. I still don't > understand how it could possibly work: afaict, org-entry-get returns the > birthday as a string, "5 4 1900", the read returns the month as a > number, 5, and diary-anniversary should blow up because it needs at least > two > arguments (a month and a day) - and it does in my case.
You're probably right, there was a typo in my example. The below text is corrected, I had forgotten the parantheses for the date! * John :PROPERTIES: :Name: John :Birthday: (5 4 1900) :END: %%(apply 'diary-anniversary (read (org-entry-get nil "Birthday"))) John Does this work for you? > Be that as it may, re. filling in the name, I don't know how to do it > and I'm not sure that it can be done: the string after the function call > is scanned for %d but no other evaluation is done. org just passes the > string along and all of that work is done in diary-anniversary whose > doc string says: > > ,---- > | The diary entry can contain `%d' or `%d%s'; the %d will be replaced > | by the number of years since the MONTH, DAY, YEAR, and the %s will > | be replaced by the ordinal ending of that number (that is, `st', > | `nd', `rd' or `th', as appropriate). The anniversary of February 29 > | is considered to be March 1 in non-leap years. > `---- Yes, it may require hacking diary-anniversary. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
