Re: [O] Manipulating Dates Automatically in a Headline

[Matt Price]

It's been a couple of days so I'll try restate this question more
clearly.  I'm hoping it's possible to do something like this:

* Week one (<2014-09-09>)
* Week two (EVALUATE A LISP EXPRESSION THAT INSERTS A TIMESTAMP ONE
WEEK LATER THAN LAST TIMESTAMP FOUND IN BUFFER)

I don't have much experience with babel so I'm not sure how to do
this, but if it's possible I would love some hints.  Thanks as always,

Matt


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've asked this before, but that was a year or two ago and am hoping
> someone has an idea now, perhaps involving babel or something.
>
> every year at this time I rewrite a set of syllabi. I do a lot of
> moving htings around while i'm oding it, and at the end I have to
> enter a whole bunch of dates somewhat laboriously.  I have headlines
> that look about like either like this:
>
> -----------------
> * Outline
> ** Week 1: Topic Title (<2013-09-10>)
>     Longish Description
> *** Reading
> - Article 1
> - Article 2
> *** Lab
> *** Notes
> -----------------------------------
>
> or like this:
> ----------------------
> * Outline
> ** Week 1: <2013-09-09>
> *** Seminar: Technology and Society  (<2013-09-10>)
> *** Reading
> - Article 1
> - Article 2
> *** Plenary: Global Citizenship (<2013-09-13>)
> --------------------
>
> I would like to replace the timestamps with code that dynamically
> generates timestamps based on the value either in the last sibling
> headline, or the parent headline.  It seems to me this ought to be
> possible, but I'm not at all sure how to do it.  i would really
> appreciate any guidance.  thanks!
>
> Matt