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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Citing text tutorials and practices? Supercite?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:03:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h4tskw0.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zkicgidd.fsf@stories.gnus.org>

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:09:02 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>> Doesn't the option to add citation "noise" belong on the receiving end
>> of the email connection?  I'm surprised nobody has created a "supercite
>> washer" for Gnus that lets people view citations in whatever fancy way
>> they choose without imposing it on everyone else.

LMI> Yeah, I don't like supercite.  Quoted text should be simply ">", and
LMI> then the receiver can display that however they want.  Supercite is the
LMI> number one reason why it's virtually impossible to handle cited text
LMI> automatically.

Just wait until I get vertical (left-to-right) quoting working ;)

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-27 16:58 Johnny
2011-08-27 18:10 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-27 18:35 ` Richard Riley
2011-08-27 17:50   ` Johnny
2011-08-27 19:00     ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-27 18:19       ` Johnny
2011-08-27 19:48         ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-10 22:09           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-27 22:03             ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-09-28 10:22               ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-29  1:33       ` jidanni
2011-08-29 14:25     ` Wes Hardaker
2011-08-28  5:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-08-28  9:01   ` Tassilo Horn
2011-08-28  9:35     ` Eric Abrahamsen

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