Re: Possible feature request (but more of a request for comment/opinion)

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Emil Vatai <emil.vatai@gmail.com> writes:

> So I have a web page generated by org-mode which has a fancy quote at the
> beginning, generated by #+BEGIN/END_QUOTE of course... and the
> signature/citation/reference at the end seemed off so I googled "html
> blockquote" and apparently the proper way to use it [1] is to have a <cite>
> tag after the <blockquote> tag. So I thought, this can't be so hard...
> let's do it... a few copy/pastes and search-and-replaces later... I
> realized that the #+BEGIN/END_QUOTE block is processed not just by ox-html
> but also buy the other backends... so to make things nice, I'd need to
> implement the same thing in them as well... which might not be a meaningful
> thing to do.

Could you be a bit more explicit about what you want to do, possibly
giving an example?

> I just had that urge that "wow, I want to contribute to that cool project
> (org-mode) which I use so much"... but it's not something what I thing
> should be extra useful. It can be done without adding a CITE block to the
> html export backend. I need it only in one place - so probably not worth it.
>
> But still, any opinion on this? (I got really good encouragement on IRC to
> write here)

You can add a feature per export back-end, using, e.g., "ATTR_HTML"
keyword:

    #+attr_html: :cite The source
    #+begin_quote
    ...
    #+end_quote

For example, ox-texinfo supports :author for quotes:

    #+attr_texinfo: :author ...
    #+begin_quote
    ...
    #+end_quote

See `org-texinfo-quote-block' for details.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou