6 Nov 2001 17:53
6 Nov 2001 18:15
Re: birthdays
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> Does anyone have a macro that makes handling birthdays easier?
I use this:
if !defined("init")
set init 1
fset since(x) ord(year(trigdate())-x)
endif
REM 6 Jan +8 MSG %"Eleanor and Alan's [since(1980)] anniversary%" is %b.
REM 6 Mar +8 MSG %"Gillian's [since(1998)] Birthday%" is %b.
Works for me.
--
David.
10 Nov 2001 16:04
Re: birthdays
David,
This works reallly well for me. I now have an extensive
collection of birthdays in my database. Thanks!
--Tom
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:15:59PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a macro that makes handling birthdays easier?
>
> I use this:
>
> if !defined("init")
> set init 1
> fset since(x) ord(year(trigdate())-x)
> endif
>
> REM 6 Jan +8 MSG %"Eleanor and Alan's [since(1980)] anniversary%" is %b.
> REM 6 Mar +8 MSG %"Gillian's [since(1998)] Birthday%" is %b.
--
--
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23 Nov 2001 21:15
Re: Remind-fans -- confirmation of subscription -- request 436931
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29 Nov 2001 15:41
new (again) to remind
Hi, all -- I first saw Remind shortly after its creation and used it throughout my time at college, and then was away from it for a loooong time; I'm delighted to have found it again. My, how it's grown(Continue reading)I'm working my way through the man page and examples and looking at how I'll be able to play with my reminders -- yay! A few questions have come up, though... Are there other calendars available? I'd love to see a US Holiday calendar just so that I don't have to enter them all in, and some fun ones like trivia calendars and celebrity birthdays and such would be nice. I'd really like to see a scientific inventions calendar to provide fodder for homework digging. I'm quite excited about the web side of remind and can't wait to play with it. I noticed that the sample version at roaringpenguin had some cell width problems until I maximized my browser; I suppose there isn't much we can do to get around that but I'm open to how others have solved that problem. I've wanted for a long time a web-based calendar which could draw lines [apparently] across cells so that we could have, say, a purple line stretching through the whole week when Grandpa is in town and a red line that goes from Friday to Sunday to mark out weekend trip and so on. I haven't found one yet that does it, though I have some ideas for implementation; has anyone seen anything like this, especially in Remind? I think that's enough from me for a while; time to go back to the manual
29 Nov 2001 17:09
bold-facing a BANNER string
Hi again! As I go through my reminders and try them out, I find that I can no longer bold-ify a BANNER or REM MSG line. Here's a bit of my top-level reminder file: BANNER [4m[3m%_Hi there, David! Here's what's on your schedule today...[m REM MSG [3mBirthdays or anniversaries coming up:[m When I try to run this, I get "Ill-formed number" errors. TIA & HAND :-D -- -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) davidtg@... * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) davidtgwork@... http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
29 Nov 2001 18:10
Re: bold-facing a BANNER string
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, David T-G wrote: > As I go through my reminders and try them out, I find that I can no > longer bold-ify a BANNER or REM MSG line. Here's a bit of my top-level > reminder file: > BANNER [4m[3m%_Hi there, David! Here's what's on your schedule today...[m The "[" character now invokes substitution... it has been a while since you used Remind...
30 Nov 2001 01:13
Re: bold-facing a BANNER string
David -- ...and then David F. Skoll said... % On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, David T-G wrote: % % > longer bold-ify a BANNER or REM MSG line. Here's a bit of my top-level % > reminder file: % % > BANNER [4m[3m%_Hi there, David! Here's what's on your schedule today...[m % % The "[" character now invokes substitution... it has been a while since you % used Remind...(Continue reading)
30 Nov 2001 02:16
substitution and indentation
Hi again -- So I now know about [substitution] and it's made my boldfacing look quite lovely. It occurred to me that perhaps I could use this to standardize indentation (yes, I'm kinda obsessive about that). I have a top-level remindrc file and I include a number of other remind files from there (part of the reason for my query regarding other calendars suitable for a system or a family) with a header before each. I'd like for included remind files to each indent two more spaces than the last. I tried set idnt "" set odnt "" ... set odnt [idnt] set idnt "[idnt] " INCLUDE /path/to/some/file set idnt [odnt] with the include file structure of REM date ... MSG [idnt]message-contents but all I got on my output was [idnt] message-contents instead of the expected stacked indentation. I turned around and tried(Continue reading)
30 Nov 2001 14:26
Re: substitution and indentation
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, David T-G wrote: > How can I increase and decrease my indentation in a programmatic manner > that will work at any depth of inclusion Try this: ----------------------------- set idnt "" #... set odnt idnt set idnt idnt + " " INCLUDE file.rem set idnt odnt ----------------------------- In file.rem: REM ... MSG %[idnt]foo The first "%" is important: It prevents Remind from consuming white space after the MSG. -- David.(Continue reading)
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