Re: Markdown -> plain: How to preserve blockquotes?

[Francisco Lopes <francisco.mailing.lists-iwoE/Jjr5LLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

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Hello John,

Em terça-feira, 5 de setembro de 2017 01:53:20 UTC-3, John MacFarlane 
escreveu:
>
> +++ Francisco Lopes [Sep 04 17 11:52 ]: 
> >   My last message was moderated, did I say anything wrong? 
>
> No, Google does that automatically on occasion, for reasons 
> that are generally opaque to me.  I just unfroze your 
> message. 
>
> Pandoc's 'plain' output tries to reproduce the conventions 
> used in Project Gutenberg's plain text books.  That doesn't 
> use `>` for quotes; rather, it uses indentation to come 
> close to the look of an actual printed book, and that's 
> what we do too.
>

That's in agreement with what I said in my deleted message.
I don't indentation as better or worse, just different purpose,
and more aesthetically pleasant for citation quotes, just like
in books, but completely equivocated for conversation quotes
that can go many levels deep.

The ` ` is a bug, though, which I'm about to fix. 
> In markdown you need something between a list and an 
> indented code block, or the indented block gets interpreted 
> as a continuation paragraph in the last list item. To 
> prevent that we insert an HTML comment or (if raw HTML is 
> disabled) a ` `.  But of course this isn't necessary 
> in `plain` output. 
>
>

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