Blockquote Citation Convention
It appears that the parser sees em-dashes and double-hyphens immediately following a block quote as part of the quote, while single-hyphens are considered a separate line.
Will that be a lasting convention? I can't seem to find any documentation on this, but would like to take advantage of the convention if so.
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Hm. The single dash marks the line as a list item which wins over "coalescing" the lines into 1 large blockquote.
This behavior should stay pretty stable. But it's a weird convention to rely on, I don't know how other Markdown-related apps treat this; if you want to make a line part of a blockquote, why not prepend it with a
>as well?My epigraphs are formatted as
The
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Thanks for this. It helped with the formatting of a note:
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Semantically, it seems ambiguous to me, as the
>seems to delineate quoted text, and not citation information. However, clearly the blockquote and the citation belong together in some way, so I wasn't sure if there was an emerging multimarkdown convention here.Markdown does not provide semantic for citations, but it allows embedding HTML. HTML has the
<cite>element for this purpose. An example would look like this:The element can be placed anywhere inside the block quote.
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