Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Email-style blockquote formatter?

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

Actually markdown does blockquotes out of the box. The email style is
the markdown syntax for blockquotes [1] with some restrictions.

The reason your example doesn't work as expected is that markdown
*insists* on a blank line between each block-level element. So either
of the following will give you your expected output:

    foo wrote:

    > bar wrote:
    >
    > > baz
    >
    > whatever
    >
    > > quux
    >
    > right
    > wrong

Or:

    foo wrote:

    > bar wrote:

    > > baz

    > whatever

    > > quux

    > right
    wrong

Note that the double quoted lines have a space between the >s. Again,
this is a requirement of the markdown syntax. To play with it, I
suggest babelmark [2].

So to answer your question directly, no, there is no extension as the
existing syntax is good enough for most (all?) users. However, if you
want to tweak the existing behavior, then you are welcome to write
your own extension. I suggest looking at the code on gitorious [3]
which will be released as 2.0 soonish. It's much easier to alter the
core than in 1.7. The docs [4] should help you out with that. Just be
aware that until 2.0 is released, the API is subject to change -
although I don't anticipate much change.

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#blockquote
[2]: http://tinyurl.com/9xgjh3
[3]: http://gitorious.org/projects/python-markdown/repos/mainline
[4]: http://gitorious.org/projects/python-markdown/repos/mainline/blobs/master/docs/writing_extensions.txt

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Matthias Urlichs <sm...@sm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an extension for email-style quoting, so that text like ...
>
> foo wrote:
>> bar wrote:
>>> baz
>> whatever
>>> quux
>> right
> wrong
>
> ... looks reasonably sane (i.e. nested blockquote tags, ideally with
> support for RFC 2646)?
>
> Pointers appreciated.
>
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