Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Maibaum
Thank you, I think this makes a lot of sense. I came across Pandoc when I first learned about Markdown and I like its extended version of Markdown very much, in particular the fact that it supports footnotes and tables (the same goes for Markdown Extra). Unfortunately, none of the tools I use

How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Thomas Maibaum
Hello everyone, First off, I'm new to this list, so if this has been dealt with before, I apologize. I was unable to find a solution in Google. My question is, how do I insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs so that they are visually separate? I often need to put two or three

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Alan Hogan
Folks, my apologies. Those links seem to break after running through the listserv. Below, I use my URL shortener to give you un-breakable links. My original suggestion to Thomas: http://ajh.us/bmd1 The actual link to the funny lunamark behavior: http://ajh.us/bmd2 Alan smime.p7s Description:

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Waylan Limberg way...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Thomas Maibaum thomasmaib...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, First off, I'm new to this list, so if this has been dealt with before, I apologize. I was unable to find a solution in

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread David Chambers
Another (ugly) option: blockquote quote 1 /blockquote blockquote quote 2 /blockquote blockquote quote 3 /blockquote This is no good, though, if the quotes contain markup of their own, as you'll be forced to write that in HTML too. David On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 1:27 PM, Waylan

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Thomas Maibaum
Thanks all of you (Alan, Waylan, Hogan)! Oops. That should have been Alan, Waylan, *David*, obviously. ___ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Thomas Maibaum
Scott Granneman, 2012-10-24 23:37: Well, if we’re going with ugly, what’s wrong with the good ol’ fashioned non-breaking space? I for one feel that an empty HTML comment looks slightly less ugly than the text nbsp; in the Markdown text. But as I said, it's a matter of taste. :) Apart from

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Scott Granneman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Thomas Maibaum thomasmaib...@gmail.com wrote: Apart from that, I just compared the two methods and I noticed that this... quote text nbsp; quote text ... for some reason creates a *larger* break between the quote parts than this: quote

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Thomas Maibaum
Scott Granneman, 2012-10-25 00:14: Well, sure it is. A comment is nothing. A non-breaking space is something: a space. That’s why I suggested it. It wasn't that obvious to me, I have to admit. It seems that a comment is a bit more than nothing, though: After all, it *does* create a break

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread John MacFarlane
See question 6 here: http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-big-questions-that-the-markdown-spec-does-not-answer And note that pandoc allows you to create two blockquotes if you leave blank space between,

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:33 PM, David Chambers david.chambers...@gmail.com wrote: http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1text=%3E+foo%0A%0A%3E+bar%0A%0A I love pandoc's approach here. It's logical, and makes it just as trivial to mark up consecutive single-paragraph quotes as it is

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-24 Thread John MacFarlane
I guess you're right. I'll leave it in for now, so as not to confuse people trying to follow this discussion, but add a note that points to your post. +++ Waylan Limberg [Oct 24 12 23:23 ]: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:22 PM, John MacFarlane j...@berkeley.edu wrote: See question 6 here: