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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans <remind-fans@lists.skoll.ca></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:09:46 -0600<br>
Tim Chase via Remind-fans <remind-fans@lists.skoll.ca> wrote:<br>
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> On 2024-01-13 16:17, Remind list wrote:<br>
> > I'm using rem2html. When I want a link to appear in the<br>
> > calendar, I use something like<br>
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> > REM 14 Jan 2024 AT 11:00 SPECIAL HTML <p class="rem-entry"> 11:00<br>
> > <a href="url"> text </a></p><br>
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> > I'm including the time (hh:mm) twice, once to control the<br>
> > order in which reminders are displayed for that day (independent<br>
> > of when the reminders are appended to .reminders), and again<br>
> > so it appears with the reminder in the calendar. Is there some<br>
> > way to avoid having to include the time twice?<br>
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Yes. Replace the time in the body with: %*2<br>
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This substitution sequence simply expands to the trigger time.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-- What do you mean by 'in the body'?</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-- If I put '%*2' in the REM after SPECIAL HTML, I just see '*2' in the calendar. If I put '%2' (or '%3') I see the trigger time in
the calendar but it's preceded by 'at ', which looks weird.</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-- (The first time I put '%3' this morning, it actually displayed 'at ' followed by the current time rather than the trigger time, but
now it's displaying the trigger time, so I may have been hallucinating. The man page doesn't explicitly say that it's the trigger time that will be displayed, although it does say that trigger dates will be displayed.)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> I'd use a function for my URLs/links, something like<br>
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I think this way overcomplicates things. But it's just a matter<br>
of taste, I guess. If you have a LOT of these reminders with URLs,<br>
then encapsulating in a function makes sense. If it's only one or two,<br>
then maybe not.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-- This occurs often, for all of my Zoom meetings. However, maybe I should have mentioned that I use a question-and-answer TCL script
for adding entries to .reminders. If I specify a URL then the script generates the required SPECIAL HTML stuff, including the duplicate time. It's inelegant but not really a problem, until I decide to manually edit the REM with a text editor, in which case
I sometimes forget to change the duplicate time.</span></div>
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