Re: Inserting attribution at a better point

[Mats Lofdahl <lofdahl@usa.net>]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> >>>>> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 
>   > Okay, but WIBNI Gnus provided some support for this style, too? 
> 
> >>>>> Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:
> 
>   > Enh.  What would you propose that it do?
> 
> I'd like a command `label this region with Lars'.  This should add an
> attribution line stating that Lars said the following, and the region
> should be massaged to a standard citation style, such as the one you
> see above.
> 
> For the latter part, I have cooked up the following function...
> 
> (defun kai-message-unnest-citation (b e)
>   "Retain one level of citation in the region."
> [...]

But why destroy the citations for everybody?  Wouldn't it be better to
post with the multiple level standard citation style and have gnus
optionally _present_ the stuff the way you want it on your screen?
And move the attributions around any way you want.  Surely it would be
as easy to write a article "washing" routine that did this?

-- 
 Mats Löfdahl

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