From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emil Vatai Subject: Possible feature request (but more of a request for comment/opinion) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:40:38 +0900 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000007211a6057930f4ac" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGJDJ-0004B4-49 for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 03:40:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGJDI-0001Ae-60 for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 03:40:53 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-x32d.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::32d]:54171) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGJDH-0001AT-Uq for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 03:40:52 -0400 Received: by mail-wm1-x32d.google.com with SMTP id l26-v6so3436129wmh.3 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 00:40:51 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --0000000000007211a6057930f4ac Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I got encouraged on the IRC channel to write about my ambitions here. 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 tag after the
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. 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) Best, Emil [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/blockquote -- Emil Vatai --0000000000007211a6057930f4ac Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I got encouraged on the IRC channel to wr= ite about my ambitions here.

So I have a web page genera= ted by org-mode which has a fancy quote at the beginning, generated by #+BE= GIN/END_QUOTE of course... and the signature/citation/reference at the end = seemed off so I googled "html blockquote" and apparently the prop= er 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 f= ew 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 ba= ckends... 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.
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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 addin= g 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)

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Best,
Emil=C2=A0

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