Calendar mode provides commands to move through the calendar in
logical units of time such as days, weeks, months, and years. If you
move outside the three months originally displayed, the calendar
-display ``scrolls'' automatically through time to make the selected
+display scrolls automatically through time to make the selected
date visible. Moving to a date lets you view its holidays or diary
entries, or convert it to other calendars; moving by long time periods
is also useful simply to scroll the calendar.
backward or forward.
@vindex calendar-week-start-day
+@vindex calendar-weekend-days
@cindex weeks, which day they start on
@cindex calendar, first day of week
By default, weeks begin on Sunday. To make them begin on Monday
-instead, set the variable @code{calendar-week-start-day} to 1.
+instead, set the variable @code{calendar-week-start-day} to 1. To
+change which day headers are highlighted as weekend days, set the
+variable @code{calendar-weekend-days}.
@node Specified Dates
@subsection Specified Dates
@kindex M-v @r{(Calendar mode)}
@findex calendar-scroll-right-three-months
The commands @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v} scroll the calendar by an entire
-``screenful''---three months---in analogy with the usual meaning of
+screenful---three months---in analogy with the usual meaning of
these commands. @kbd{C-v} makes later dates visible and @kbd{M-v} makes
earlier dates visible. These commands take a numeric argument as a
repeat count; in particular, since @kbd{C-u} multiplies the next command
(@code{cal-tex-cursor-filofax-year}).
@end table
- Some of these commands print the calendar sideways (in ``landscape
-mode''), so it can be wider than it is long. Some of them use Filofax
+ Some of these commands print the calendar sideways (in landscape
+mode), so it can be wider than it is long. Some of them use Filofax
paper size (3.75in x 6.75in). All of these commands accept a prefix
argument, which specifies how many days, weeks, months or years to print
(starting always with the selected one).
These calendar commands display the dates and times of the phases of
the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon, last quarter). This
-feature is useful for debugging problems that ``depend on the phase of
-the moon''.
+feature is useful for debugging problems that depend on the phase of
+the moon.
@table @kbd
@item M
@cindex Gregorian calendar
The Emacs calendar displayed is @emph{always} the Gregorian calendar,
-sometimes called the ``new style'' calendar, which is used in most of
+sometimes called the New Style calendar, which is used in most of
the world today. However, this calendar did not exist before the
sixteenth century and was not widely used before the eighteenth century;
it did not fully displace the Julian calendar and gain universal
into solar years. The years go in cycles of sixty, each year containing
either twelve months in an ordinary year or thirteen months in a leap
year; each month has either 29 or 30 days. Years, ordinary months, and
-days are named by combining one of ten ``celestial stems'' with one of
-twelve ``terrestrial branches'' for a total of sixty names that are
+days are named by combining one of ten @dfn{celestial stems} with one of
+twelve @dfn{terrestrial branches} for a total of sixty names that are
repeated in a cycle of sixty.
@cindex Bahá'í calendar
The Bahá'í calendar system is based on a solar cycle of 19 months with
-19 days each. The four remaining ``intercalary'' days are placed
+19 days each. The four remaining intercalary days are placed
between the 18th and 19th months.
@node To Other Calendar
@findex calendar-hebrew-list-yahrzeits
@cindex yahrzeits
One common issue concerning the Hebrew calendar is the computation
-of the anniversary of a date of death, called a ``yahrzeit''. The Emacs
+of the anniversary of a date of death, called a @dfn{yahrzeit}. The Emacs
calendar includes a facility for such calculations. If you are in the
calendar, the command @kbd{M-x calendar-hebrew-list-yahrzeits} asks you for
a range of years and then displays a list of the yahrzeit dates for those
@c FIXME the name of the RFC is hardly very relevant.
@cindex iCalendar support
The icalendar package allows you to transfer data between your Emacs
-diary file and iCalendar files, which are defined in ``RFC
+diary file and iCalendar files, which are defined in @cite{RFC
2445---Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
-(iCalendar)'' (as well as the earlier vCalendar format).
+(iCalendar)} (as well as the earlier vCalendar format).
-@c Importing works for ``ordinary'' (i.e., non-recurring) events, but
+@c Importing works for ordinary (i.e., non-recurring) events, but
@c (at present) may not work correctly (if at all) for recurring events.
@c Exporting of diary files into iCalendar files should work correctly
@c for most diary entries. This feature is a work in progress, so the
Once you've collected data from a number of time intervals, you can use
@kbd{M-x timeclock-workday-remaining} to see how much time is left to
work today (assuming a typical average of 8 hours a day), and @kbd{M-x
-timeclock-when-to-leave} which will calculate when you're ``done''.
+timeclock-when-to-leave} which will calculate when you're done.
@vindex timeclock-modeline-display
@findex timeclock-modeline-display
- If you want Emacs to display the amount of time ``left'' of your
+ If you want Emacs to display the amount of time left of your
workday in the mode line, either customize the
@code{timeclock-modeline-display} variable and set its value to
@code{t}, or invoke the @kbd{M-x timeclock-modeline-display} command.