From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15633 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mats Lofdahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Inserting attribution at a better point Date: 15 Jul 1998 14:06:16 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.95) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154630 23198 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:57:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mats@astro.su.se Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA10558 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 04:10:28 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13455 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAT28560; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 05:40:56 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 15 Jul 1998 06:06:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA26317 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 06:06:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mx.su.se (mx.su.se [130.237.162.24]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA03515 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:06:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from royac6.astro.su.se (royac6.astro.su.se [130.237.166.76]) by mx.su.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA21660 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:06:01 +0200 Original-Received: by royac6.astro.su.se (5.65v4.0/1.1.19.2/04Jun98-0539PM) id AA07567; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:06:16 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Mats In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "Wed, 15 Jul 1998 10:10:59 GMT" Original-Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.66/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by altair.xemacs.org id EAA10558 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15633 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15633 Kai Grossjohann writes: > >>>>> Kai Grossjohann writes: > > > Okay, but WIBNI Gnus provided some support for this style, too? > > >>>>> Justin Sheehy 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 "Good luck. If you turn out to be a genius after all, remember that I never once for a moment believed in you." -- Orson Scott Card (1996)