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By the way, indenting comments makes them frustrating to read on mobile. The generally preferred method on HN is to begin the line with a > and optionally wrap
by thomastjeffery 9y ago
By the way, indenting comments makes them frustrating to read on mobile.
The generally preferred method on HN is to begin the line with a > and optionally wrap the quote in * (asterisks) to make it italicized.
- adrianratnapala 9y ago> The generally preferred > method on HN is to begin > the line with a > The problem with ">"-style quoting, is that the markup doesn't recognize them. Nor does it preserve the preceding newline. So if you are quoting anything more than a one-liner, you get a mess.
- thomastjeffery 9y agoThat's true. HN is a little too lean on the markup. Even though that is considered one its main features, HN would definitely benefit from a markup for quotes.
- foota 9y agoYou can double newline like this, to get a line break
- akvadrako 9y agoThat's why the italics. Anyways, HN formatting sucks.
- adrianratnapala 9y ago@foota, yes double-line break kinda works. But it forces each line to be a para and that looks ugly. I prefer to use italics in these cases as @akvadrako suggests. But italics is not great either, because the light-weight syntax with asterisks is really meant for a small bits of text. It gets brittle for long texts which might include asterisks, or other things that confuse the markup.