[Remind-Fans] Day number

[Jostein Berntsen]

On 09.05.10,18:49, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> 
> > I use this function for getting the number of the day shown in the 
> > calendar. 
> 
> > REM CAL [trigdate()-date(year(trigdate()), 1, 1)+1]
> 
> > The day number is now placed below the date in the calendar output. Is 
> > it possible to place it right after the name of the day, or in a 
> > parenthesis after the date?
> 
> There are only two ways to do what you want:  With a PS special,
> or by abusing the WEEK special.
> 
> The latter is easier and works with the HTML and TkRemind back-ends:
> 
> REM SPECIAL WEEK ([trigdate()-date(year(trigdate()), 1, 1)+1])
> 
> The former might be something like this, though it only works for
> PostScript calendars:
> 
> REM SPECIAL PS Border Border 2 div moveto /DayFont findfont 6 scalefont setfont ([trigdate()-date(year(trigdate()), 1, 1)+1]) show
> 
> If you know PostScript, you can play around with the PS special to position
> the day number where you like it.


Thanks, this worked great with TkRemind. It would be nice if it could 
work with the console output as well.


Jostein