Re: Citing text tutorials and practices? Supercite?

[Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:58:56 +0100, Johnny wrote:
>
>> How does one achieve this?
>
> boxquote.el: http://www.davep.org/emacs/

This is what I was looking for, thanks! If there's any nice summary on
usage, that'd be great, but I am happy to play around and learn from the
code if necessary.

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
> Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk> writes:
>>
>> Is Supercite commonly used for this and is there a good "style guide" for
>> citations around? Examples appreciated! :)
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers!
>
> I would only suggest not using supercite for quoting and indenting
> replies with name attribution. Adam has already linked to boxquote for
> quoting "inserts" if you like. But supercite putting in the initial in
> the left column makes the page SO noisy as to be almost painful. Gnus
> colour codes the level quite nicely and makes it easy to determine to
> whom which block belongs.  Regarding supercite being commonly used :
> certainly not to do the name attributions. I can think of only one
> poster here who uses it but may well be wrong ;)
>
On second thought, Supercite may not at all be what I want to use! It
seems to be overly complicated and not provide any advantage to Gnus
default behaviour, and the boxquote.el was the required package to do
the quoting I looked for. If there any Supercite users out there that
can motivate me to learn and to use it, I would be happy to hear your
arguments! Surely there must be some clever usage for it ?

Cheers!
-- 
Johnny