From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79754 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Citing text tutorials and practices? Supercite? Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:58:56 +0100 Message-ID: <8762lix033.fsf@DeuxExMachina.config> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314468298 21975 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2011 18:04:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:04:58 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28048@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Aug 27 20:04:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QxNFV-0001FM-VK for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:04:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QxNEF-0003xl-OI; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QxNEC-0003xW-IK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:03:32 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QxNEB-0002i9-C9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:03:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QxNE9-0007uh-3g for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:03:29 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2011 18:03:23 -0000 Original-Received: from 78-86-131-176.zone2.bethere.co.uk (EHLO DeuxExMachina.config) [78.86.131.176] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu003) with SMTP; 27 Aug 2011 20:03:23 +0200 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+dhadMhqydLeef6Y3F5HLvSGCzuKjT4+sgsNdabW M+HlScVo+08Hyi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79754 Archived-At: I notice several users on this list have a nice citation style to refer to e.g. (info) locations or code snippets, such as the example below (copied from a post to examplify what I would like to do). ,----[ C-h v gnus-thread-sort-functions RET ] | gnus-thread-sort-functions is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'. | Its value is (gnus-thread-sort-by-number | (not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date) | gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score) `---- How does one achieve this? I realise Supercite may be part of the solution and have been reading the info pages, but do not see how the above would be done. Additionally, using Supercite changes the default Gnus style when replying to messages (e.g. 'R'), which I find quite nice and want to keep; I guess I could customise Supercite to mimic this, but can't see what is to gain by that? Is Supercite commonly used for this and is there a good "style guide" for citations around? Examples appreciated! :) Thanks for any pointers! -- Johnny