Re: Supercite

[Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>]

On Wednesday, 18 September '02, ichi-nntp@ichimusai.org wrote:
> Klaus Berndl <Klaus.Berndl@raibau.raiffeisen.at> writes:
> 
>> Not directly helping you with supercite but i would recommend to check
>> tc.el (trivial cite) which does IMHO a much better job than supercite in
>> citing!  You can get it from http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause/tc.html
>> 
>> Has fewer features than supercite but the real citing is done buch
>> better...
> 
> Thanks for the tip, It looks pretty nice.
> 
> I want to do the following:
> 
> 1) Have some control over the introduction to my follow up, the "On 18
>    Sep 2002 ... wrote:" so that it can adapt to if I am posting in
>    groups with other languages or so.

This can be done in trivial-cite by changing tc-make-attribution.  I'm
thinking I should have a more generalized function be the default, but I
don't like adding more features.

> 2) Reflow already cited material so that it looks pleasing and is easy
>    to read. This means changing other peoples quote chars (|, :, ! and
>    what not) to the standard >, and then compress the spaces etc so as
>    to save columns. 

[...]

I've been looking at replacing all cite marks with >s, but I'm not sure if
that's a reasonable thing to do.  I have a half-way finished version that
does this.  Trivial-cite already reformats citations without the extra
space correctly, but again, doesn't insert the extra space.

-Lars

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