From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1191 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Clausen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Supercite Date: 18 Sep 2002 16:35:37 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Message-ID: <81it13yo9i.fsf@shasta.cs.uiuc.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667980 10125 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:39:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:46 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Sender: lrclause@shasta.cs.uiuc.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.174.246.68 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uiuc.edu Original-X-Trace: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu 1032384774 128.174.246.68 (Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:32:54 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:32:54 CDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1331 Original-Lines: 41 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1331 Tue Jan 17 17:28:46 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1191 Archived-At: On Wednesday, 18 September '02, ichi-nntp@ichimusai.org wrote: > Klaus Berndl 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 -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket?