From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15660 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Inserting attribution at a better point Date: 16 Jul 1998 10:02:27 +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 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154652 23326 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:57:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:57:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, 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 BAA21848 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 01:07:27 -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 EAA07295 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 04:04:11 -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 CAS00699; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 16 Jul 1998 03:02:48 -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 DAA22534 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 03:02:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA27605 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 04:02:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id KAA22020; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:02:31 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id KAA26424; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:02:29 +0200 Original-To: Mats Lofdahl In-Reply-To: Mats Lofdahl's message of "15 Jul 1998 14:06:16 +0200" Original-Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.24/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15660 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15660 >>>>> Mats Lofdahl 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. (Terry Pratchett: Interesting Times)