From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79756 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Citing text tutorials and practices? Supercite? Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:35:14 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <8762lix033.fsf@DeuxExMachina.config> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314470014 834 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2011 18:33:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:33:34 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28050@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Aug 27 20:33:28 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 1QxNh8-0004K3-Ie for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:33:26 +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 1QxNgx-0004Ak-LE; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:33:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QxNgw-0004Aa-Dk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QxNgv-0007jw-Dt for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QxNgu-0000As-2B for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:33:12 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QxNgt-0004E1-OU for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:33:11 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:33:11 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:33:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JXLcL7KyGyvfGv4UyNEZfR8SOhM= X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79756 Archived-At: Johnny writes: > 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! 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 ;)