There is no standard, only the blockquote tag (which is optional)

> My personal style are lines with leading > and italics.

I wrote a nodelet-hack facilitating this and other things, choroba and discipulus are among the users.

You'll find it linked in my signature down here named as "Wikisyntax"

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

update

... and pasting the URL of a local node will automatically transform into it's the proper [id://123456789] format.)

so https://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=11103184 will become [ID://11103184] and display as Missing error under strict

In reply to Re: Quote another post by LanX
in thread Quote another post by Pascal666

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