[comp.emacs] Calendar/Diary Package and Paper

reingold@m.cs.uiuc.edu (09/25/90)

A paper explaining all of the calendrical calculations done in the GNU
Emacs calendar/diary package has now appeared:

``Calendrical Calculations'' by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold,
Software---Practice & Experience, vol. 20, no. 9 (September, 1990),
pp. 899--928.

To obtain a HARD COPY of this paper, send email to reingold@cs.uiuc.edu
with the subject containing the phrase ``send-paper-cal'' (no quotes),
and the message body containing your complete mailing address.

To obtain an electronic copy of Common Lisp functions in this paper,
send email to reingold@cs.uiuc.edu with the subject containing the phrase
``send-cal'' (no quotes), and a null message body.

To obtain the Emacs-Lisp calendar/diary package, send email to
reingold@cs.uiuc.edu with the subject containing the phrase
``send-emacs-cal'' (no quotes), and a null message body.

I am now in the process of fixing a few small problems and adding a few
minor improvements to the Emacs-Lisp version, so please send comments,
bug reports, and suggestions to me as soon as possible.