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> 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 d
by 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.