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

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

2009-11-20 Thread Ben Finney
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com 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

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 ben+em...@benfinney.id.au 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

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 carsten.domi...@gmail.com 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