After the diary buffer has been prepared, the functions specified by the
variable diary-display-hook are called. The default value of
this hook simply displays the diary file using selective display to conceal
irrelevant diary entries. However, if you specify the hook as follows,
(setq diary-display-hook 'fancy-diary-display)
Emacs will prepare a noneditable buffer with a neatly organized
day-by-day listing of relevant diary entries and known holidays. If you
are using the fancy diary display, you get a hard copy of the buffer
with M-x lpr-buffer; you should not use M-x
print-diary-entries. Thus you can get a hard copy of a day-by-day
diary for a week by positioning the point on Sunday of that week, using
7 d, switching to the fancy diary, and using M-x lpr-buffer.
As in the standard diary buffer, the inclusion of the holidays slows
down the display slightly; you can speed things up by setting the
variable holidays-in-diary-buffer to nil.
Ordinarily, the fancy diary buffer will not show days for which there are
no diary entries, even if that day is a holiday. If you want such days to be
shown in the fancy diary buffer, set the variable
diary-list-include-blanks to t.
If you use the fancy diary display, you can use the
list-diary-entries-hook to sort each day's diary entries. Add the lines
(setq list-diary-entries-hook
'(lambda nil
(setq diary-entries-list
(sort diary-entries-list 'diary-entry-compare))))
to your `.emacs' file. For each day, diary entries that begin with a recognizable time of day will be sorted into order, preceded by any diary entries that do not begin with a time of day.