Dear Nicolas, Thank you for the quick response.
According to the developer.mozilla.org link, a quote and a citation should look like this: <blockquote cite="https://www.huxley.net/bnw/four.html";> <p>Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.</p> </blockquote> <cite>– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World</cite> The quote part is straightforward in org-mode: #+attr_html: :cite https://www.huxley.net/bnw/four.html #+begin_quote Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. #+end_quote But what to do with the: <cite>– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World</cite> part? So I was (for a brief moment) motivated to implement #BEGIN/END_CITE for org-mode, but now it doesn't seem to make much sense to do so. I can implement it simply by adding an export html block (for the one situation I need it). Hopefully this example clarifies what my question is about. Regards, Emil On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 6:38 PM Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > Emil Vatai <emil.va...@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 > -- Emil Vatai
