Blockquote Citation Convention

micahredding

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.

ctietze

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 quote.__
-- Author

The __ denotes two spaces to force a line break there.

ZettelDistraction

@ctietze said:
My epigraphs are formatted as

> The quote.__
> -- Author

The __ denotes two spaces to force a line break there.

Thanks for this. It helped with the formatting of a note:

micahredding

@ctietze said:
if you want to make a line part of a blockquote, why not prepend it with a > as well?

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.

zk_1000

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.

GeoEng51

@ZettelDistraction

Haha! I love your note on unintentional haiku's. Thanks for sharing that.