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Blockquote. There are many times I would like to do a blockquote and have to either "quote" the quote, italicize the quote, or use preformatted quotes. Eac
by gvb 16y ago
Blockquote. There are many times I would like to do a blockquote and have to either "quote" the quote, italicize the quote, or use
preformatted quotes.
Each of the alternatives has drawbacks.
I would humbly request pg to add the email convention "> " at the beginning of a line to format as a block quote.
> This would be a block quote. It goes on as long as the paragraph goes on. Note that each line does not start with "> " - that would be unnecessary since that is already done with the preformatted syntax.
This would no longer be block quoted.
- thinkalone 16y agoQuoting is also my top request. I find it strange that using > as blockquote would have been removed - What markdown interpreter does HN use?
- gvb 16y agoThe lisp one. :-P Seriously, HN has its own very limited markup syntax and blockquote has never been in it. http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
- thinkalone 16y ago> HN has its own very limited markup syntax Just what we need, another subset of Markdown :(