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If you remove the indentation, your > will markup the text as a quote. The indentation marks it as unwrapped preformatted text, which renders this text illegibl

• dpark 10y ago
  > If you remove the indentation, your > will markup the text as a quote. No it won't. It just puts a '>' in front of the line. You can also put asterisks around the text to italicize it (as I've done here). But the '>' has no special support. > This is just normal body text. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc > The indentation marks it as unwrapped preformatted text, which renders this text illegible on mobile. Verbatim/code formatting does totally break legibility, especially on mobile.