Automatically number recurring events?

Hi all,
Just searched the topics but can't seem to find it so I'll post the question here. What I'm trying to do is get iCal to automatically number my (weekly) recurring event.
The event recurs every Saturday, and I want iCal to add +1 for each week. For example how many weeks you are pregnant, how many weeks it's been since you've moved etc. Really don't feel like adding the number of weeks manually... is this possible?
Thanks!

Not really. The repeating event is only stored once, so thereis no second or third or ... actual stored event, and so nowhere to put the recurrence number. iCal calculates, from the start date and recurrence rule, what repeating events should be shown in the current view. I imagine it would be easy, as part of the calculation, to calculate the number and display it, but they would need to change their code.
You could suggest it: OS X Feedback
AK

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