From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, mats@astro.su.se
Subject: Re: Inserting attribution at a better point
Date: 16 Jul 1998 10:02:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf1zrmusto.fsf@ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mats Lofdahl's message of "15 Jul 1998 14:06:16 +0200"
>>>>> Mats Lofdahl <lofdahl@usa.net> writes:
> 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?
Well, it can't happen automatically. And I did say `WIBNI if Gnus
provided support for this, too?'. This does not imply to remove
support for the now standard citation style!
Just suppose some people prefer to cite similar to the way Erik Naggum
does, my suggestion was to have some support for this in Gnus.
kai
--
You ate somebody? -- Just a leg. -- That's terrible! -- Not with mustard.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-16 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-08 18:01 Karl Kleinpaste
1998-07-08 22:20 ` Justin Sheehy
1998-07-09 10:36 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-07-12 2:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-07-12 3:06 ` Michael Harnois
1998-07-14 9:33 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-07-14 21:02 ` Justin Sheehy
1998-07-15 7:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-07-15 10:08 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-07-15 12:06 ` Mats Lofdahl
1998-07-15 14:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-07-16 8:02 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
1998-07-16 9:37 ` Mats Lofdahl
1998-07-16 8:41 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-07-15 11:50 ` Kai Grossjohann
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