From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79757 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Citing text tutorials and practices? Supercite? Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:50:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87zkiuu4ju.fsf@DeuxExMachina.config> References: <8762lix033.fsf@DeuxExMachina.config> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314471338 9388 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2011 18:55:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:55:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28051@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Aug 27 20:55:34 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 1QxO2W-0004QP-Um for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:55:33 +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 1QxO2L-0004Ip-Mn; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:55:21 -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 1QxO2K-0004Ie-49 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:55:20 -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 1QxO2I-0002r1-Pu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QxO2H-0000jC-7v for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:55:17 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2011 18:55:11 -0000 Original-Received: from 78-86-131-176.zone2.bethere.co.uk (EHLO DeuxExMachina.config) [78.86.131.176] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu004) with SMTP; 27 Aug 2011 20:55:11 +0200 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18k8K8F+rEkJE7cB2kUhQ9SVzRvRJug/wrCc00+tY KNC2nEAviSkOS5 In-Reply-To: (Richard Riley's message of "Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:35:14 +0200") 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:79757 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sj=C3=B8gren) 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 writes: > Johnny 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! --=20 Johnny