sc: Frames You Can Customize
8.2 Frames You Can Customize
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As mentioned earlier, Supercite uses various frames to perform certain
jobs such as mail header information extraction and mail header nuking.
However, these frames are not available for you to customize, except
through abstract interfaces such as ‘sc-nuke-mail-header’, et al.
However, the citation frames Supercite uses provide a lot of
customizing power and are thus available to you to change to suit your
needs. The workhorse of citation is the frame contained in the variable
‘sc-default-cite-frame’. This frame recognizes many situations, such as
blank lines, which it interprets as paragraph separators. It also
recognizes previously cited nested and non-nested citations in the
original message. By default it will coerce non-nested citations into
your preferred citation style, and it will add a level of citation to
nested citations. It will also simply cite uncited lines in your
preferred style.
In a similar vein, there are default frames for “unciting” and
“reciting”, contained in the variables ‘sc-default-uncite-frame’ and
‘sc-default-recite-frame’ respectively.
As mentioned earlier (
Recognizing Citations), citations are
recognized through the values of the regular expressions
‘sc-citation-root-regexp’, et al. To recognize odd styles, you could
modify these variables, or you could modify the default citing frame.
Alternatively, you could set up association lists of frames for
recognizing specific alternative forms.
For each of the actions—citing, unciting, and reciting—an alist is
consulted to find the frame to use (‘sc-cite-frame-alist’,
‘sc-uncite-frame-alist’, and ‘sc-recite-frame-alist’ respectively).
These frames can contain alists of the form:
((INFOKEY (REGEXP . FRAME) (REGEXP . FRAME) ...)
(INFOKEY (REGEXP . FRAME) (REGEXP . FRAME) ...)
(...))
Where INFOKEY is a key suitable for ‘sc-mail-field’, REGEXP is a
regular expression which is ‘string-match’’d against the value of the
‘sc-mail-field’ key, and FRAME is the frame to use if a match occurred.
FRAME can be a variable containing a frame or a frame in-lined.
When Supercite is about to cite, uncite, or recite a region, it
consults the appropriate alist and attempts to find a frame to use. If
one is not found from the alist, then the appropriate default frame is
used.
Info Catalog
sc: Using Regi
sc: Configuring the Citation Engine