code blocks in blockquotes

[John Gruber]

Jan Weil <Jan.Weil at web.de> wrote on 07/14/04 at 10:01am:

> in _DoBlockQuotes you add two spaces to the beginning of each line:
> 
>     $bq =~ s/^/  /g;
> 
> This is fine if you're looking at the HTML source but causes a problem.
> If you include a code block in a blockquote your indentation is mixed up
> (especially the first line).

Yes, you're right -- this little bit of indentation for blockquote
contents causes problems for `<pre>` text.

This is fixed in the next release (coming in a few minutes).

Thanks for the report -- your example input and output was perfect.


> Am I missing these spaces' intended purpose?

No, you were right -- the idea was to make the HTML output look a
little neater.

-J.G.