HS> Hi there, folks ! HS> Don't know if anybody has already addressed the following topic, I'm HS> pretty new to this list. HS> 1) Is there a maintainer for the calendar package ? (Oops, that seems HS> to be a dangerous word these days ..) I'm not sure. Ed Reingold is listed as the author. I'm not sure how active he's doing any development. I have been spending a lot of time synching our version up to the calendar/diary/appt code in Emacs 20.2. I am pretty close to sending patches in. The last hairy wart is appt which is extremely different between the two. I've gotten it back to working (it broke on the "concat integers as strings" thing). HS> 2) Setting the calendar date-style to european, i.e., I'll try to play around with this stuff tonight (probably after the bulls game) and see what's up. I haven't done anything with the european calendar stuff so i'll have some learning to do. HS> In general, I think that making calendar/diary more language-aware (or HS> at least, aware of user-settings) is a good idea. when the update happens it will have support for cal-china.el cal-french.el cal-iso.el cal-coptic.el cal-hebrew.el cal-julian.el cal-persia.el cal-dst.el cal-islam.el cal-mayan.el calendar systems. but I don't think this is what you're after, correct? Do you mean, setting for German users, Italian users, Croatian users, etc? jeff

Hi ! I think I should cancel my first article, something must gone wrong during the configuration of my calendar. This means, somehow it will now correctly find diary entries like 12 Jun 1998 even when I have (setq calendar-date-display-form '((if dayname (concat dayname ", ")) day " " monthname " " year)) Sorry for the waste of disk and time space. I just also noted that diary entries of the form Friday, 12 Jun 1998 are interpreted as diary entries for the current date as well as weekly re-occuring events due to the occurence of `Friday'. This was not what I expected hence the problems. I wanted the above entry to just refer to one day exactly. So, please, just forget the workaround I posted in the last mail since it will screw up your diary file. However, I still believe that making calendar aware of language specific settings would be a great idea, i.e. supplying calendar with something like calendar-german-day-name-array etc. and setting calendar-day-name-array to 'calendar-english-day-name-array per default seems for me the best way to go. (So, the goal is internationalization). Holger Just for the record, this is what I meant: JM> whenever i try to go to european-diary-mode, i d inserts a day JM> for me. (if i'm following what whet you are griping about.) Yes, that's what it does for me, too. It inserts something like 12 Jun 1998 into my diary file. However, if I set (setq calendar-date-display-form '((if dayname (concat dayname ", ")) day " " monthname " " year)) which is what the info files recommend as european date-style, then pressing d (which executes view-diary-entries) won't show this new entry, because it has no dayname. So, what *should* happen, is that insert-diary-entry and view-diary-entry should agree on the format of the diary entries. But this is not the case, i.e. if I use the setting of calendar-date-display-form shown above, insert-diary-entry is totally unaware of it (no wonder here, insert-diary-entry stems from diary, but calendar-date-display-form stems from calendar). This has nothing at all to do with the setting of european-calendar-style. So, there are two ways to go: go for a closer integration of calendar and diary or at least make diary more configurable, so that one can customize how diary-entries are done (not necessarily with the customize-package). -- --- http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~schauer --- Why people hate using Lisp: "Are people suffering from parenthophobia-by-proxy, mistaking `parens' for `parents'?" - Erik Naggum in comp.emacs.xemacs