When you say preserve, do you mean you want to see the `>` characters? It won't be difficult to do that, but I'm afraid it is an arbitrary expectation on how much markdown you want to see in the plain text output. (should the `-` for lists and `>` for blockquote be considered as plaintext? If so, every markdown syntax should be considered as plaintext, or else how should you draw the boundary? Moreoever, some people do think markdown *is* plaintext, and people often say markdown won the plaintext war, where markdown becomes the de facto standard for plain text.)

Now in your case where you want to have a custom "markdown variant" that more things becomes plaintext while preserving some of the markdown extensions, I guess you may try to turn off most of the markdown extensions that you don't need (see the manual/user guide if you don't know what I mean, e.g. `-t markdown-grid_table...`).

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