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> Is there a better way to blockquote? Personally, I just stick the > in front even though HN doesn't apply special formatting to it. Most people are familiar

> Is there a better way to blockquote? Personally, I just stick the > in front even though HN doesn't apply special formatting to it. Most people are familiar with that convention, either from Markdown or from stuff like emails.

jefftk 7y ago
you can also do "asterisk greater-than text asterisk" > like this
tzs 7y ago
Same here. If quoting from more than one source, I've sometimes put an identifier in front of the >, like this: knuth:> blah blah blah wirth:> bläh bläh bläh