Treating changes in quoted nesting as paragraph breaks

Treating changes in quoted nesting as paragraph breaks

[Joseph Reagle]

I often get email with nested quoting that looks like this:

```
> This is a quoted line.
> > This is a nested quoted line. Wrapping the first line won't
> > touch this one.
> And continuing with a third line.
```

When I process such quotes with pandoc, with wrapping, it sees it
as a single paragraph and makes a mess of it -- understandably.

Would it be possible to process these a bit smarter?

Re: Treating changes in quoted nesting as paragraph breaks

[John MacFarlane]

Try with -f gfm or -f commonmark.

Pandoc requires a blank line before  a block quote but these
formats don't.

Note, however, that you'll still have problems with

> > a
> b

because of laziness, this is interpreted as
blockquote (blockquote (a b)).


Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I often get email with nested quoting that looks like this:
>
> ```
>> This is a quoted line.
>> > This is a nested quoted line. Wrapping the first line won't
>> > touch this one.
>> And continuing with a third line.
> ```
>
> When I process such quotes with pandoc, with wrapping, it sees it
> as a single paragraph and makes a mess of it -- understandably.
>
> Would it be possible to process these a bit smarter?
>
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