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      type="topic" id="calendar-layout-appointment-display">

  <info>
    <desc>Define the displaying of appointments in the calendar.</desc>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="calendar-layout" />

    <revision pkgversion="3.0.2" version="0.3" date="2011-08-25" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Andre Klapper</name>
      <email>ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Novell, Inc</name> <!-- Content partially from http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/2.32/config-prefs-cal.html.en#bshpsxa -->
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

<title>Appearance of Appointments</title>

<!-- TODO:POST-3-2: Just listing the partially busted UI options (also see calendar-layout-general-formatting) here is very poor and not task-oriented, but that's it for the time being. Better ideas welcome. -->

<!-- TODO: Recheck once https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657233 is fixed, as the current UI is a huge mess. -->

<p>The following calendar-related options are available under <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Calendar and Tasks</gui><gui>Display</gui></guiseq>.</p>

<section id="general">
<title>General</title>
<list>
<item><p>Time Divisions:</p>
<p>Sets the time increments shown as fine lines on the daily view in the calendar.</p></item>
<item><p>Show appointment end times in week and month views:</p>
<p>If there is space, Evolution shows the end times in the week and month views for each appointment.</p></item>
<item><p>Compress weekends in month view:</p>
<p>Select this option to display weekends in one box instead of two in the month view.</p></item>
<item><p>Show week numbers:</p>
<p>Shows the week numbers next to the respective weeks in the calendar.</p></item>
<item><p>Show recurring events in italic in bottom left calendar</p></item>
<item><p>Scroll Month View by a week</p></item>
</list>
</section>

<section id="date-time">
<title>Date/Time Format</title>
<p>You can change the format of the <gui>Date</gui> column by setting your preferred format.</p>
<p>The placeholders in the format expression are strftime formats. For a complete list of available strftime formats, run <code>date --help</code> in a terminal window.</p>
</section>

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