Re^3: vertical spacing with PDF::API2

[soonix]

How would a person represent an appointment in such a scheme?

in a first draft, you could add it to @task but you'd have to guess for the right position.
Most calendars have different areas (e.g. columns) for tasks (without particular time) and events (on a time scale). I'd go for that, too.

[Aldebaran]

I was fine with the closure on this thread as it regarded the original subject, but if it's perl, you know that I'm thinking about my next way to represent something. What's more, I've been thinking of it in the context of re-reading _Intermediate Perl_, and so I want to replicate their development of Gilligan's Island with my Perl Daily Briefings who are destined to get lost and need a physical list so as to figure out what the heck I really had to do today as opposed to what one might think in a moment of hysteria.

That said, let me re-state the question, how would you represent an appointment that would appear on your list for the next day?

[soonix]

I'm not sure if I understood your question the way you meant it :-)

"represent" internally? It consists of some timestamp (appointed date and time) and some text.

How to present it to the user? That would include "where", which I addressed in my previous post - if it's for the following day, I'd simply put it at the end of the list, perhaps like

tomorrow (Fri, Jun 03, 2016):
10:30 am - doctor's office

That is, some heading or other kind of marker to make aware that "following are appointments", and then, one per line, time and textual info, similiar what you'd write in your pocket calendar.

However, my general problem with your list would be that there's too much vertical space :-) (by my taste)
I'd omit the lines between the items. Instead, I'd put one between the quote of the day and the list, and then perhaps one between the tasks and the appointment(s).