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Re: Can we have """ convert to blockquote
by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 11, 2008 at 15:10 UTC
    I don't think that's a good idea, because it would break old nodes.

    And it's usually a bad idea to map non-directed quotes (a beginning """ is the same as an ending """) to nestable, named tags (like <blockquote>...</blockquote>).

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      How about [" text "]?


      holli, /regexed monk/
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Re: Can we have """ convert to blockquote
by olus (Curate) on Mar 11, 2008 at 15:36 UTC

    Do you mean having the textarea being parsed when submited, where """ is parsed to blockquote tags? If anything would be typed to get such behavior it should be consistent with the shortcuts that are already available. What you are suggesting looks like wiki formating, and I find it odd having a mixture of formating rules when you want to output HTML.

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      What you are suggesting looks like wiki formating, and I find it odd having a mixture of formating rules when you want to output HTML.

      I personally believe that metaperl's suggestion does not fit well in the monastery. But to be precise, there are many wiki languages which are not incompatible with raw html code, so your argument is not valid. Said this, I do like jdporter, except that my template is slightly different.

      What I'd really really like is an "official" <quote> tag, which would probably amount to a <blockquote> of an appropriate class behind the curtains. But I asked about it already, and it's not goint to be implemented, it seems.

      --
      If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.
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Re: Can we have """ convert to blockquote
by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 11, 2008 at 16:10 UTC
    Agree with moritz; this is a fundamentally bad idea, especially since there are occasions when one might wish to use nested quoting something like that below:
    metaperl said "ww remarked 'That's a really bad idea, because, as paco observed (in a different context) that will create a "need to recurse" which will not serve us well.' But," metaperl continued, "On the other..."

    In other words, you'll swap the existing need to type in <blockquote>...</blockquote> for a requirement to use character entities, &nbsp, as the enclosures when blockquoting is NOT desired.

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      Or you could just use <blockquote> when you need nested quotes.

      Update: To clarify, it doesn't matter if '"""..."""' doesn't work all of the time, since you can fallback to <blockquote>...</blockquote> the rest of the time. And I doubt that anyone has a need to include '"""' in their nodes — a search sample revealed '"""' has only been used in code blocks — so having to use &quote;"" to actually place """ in a node doesn't burden anyone.

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Re: Can we have """ convert to blockquote
by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 11, 2008 at 18:32 UTC
    ...instead of typing blockquote...

    I put the following in my Signature Settings, so I have one set of blockquote tags (which is usually enough; or it's easy to copy-and-paste for more). 

    <blockquote><i>
</i></blockquote>

<p>
</p>

<code>
</code>

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Re: Can we have """ convert to blockquote
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 11, 2008 at 21:46 UTC
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Re: Can we have """ convert to blockquote
by planetscape (Chancellor) on Mar 12, 2008 at 08:26 UTC
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