cites for blockquotes

[Olivier Scherler]

> Olivier Scherler <os-lists at ithink.ch> wrote on 03/19/04 at 10:03a:
> 
> > > For example, what if I wanted to produce this:
> > > 
> > >     <blockquote cite="http://ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/quote04.htm">
> > >         <p>They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
> > >         temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.</p>
> > >     
> > >         <p>--Benjamin Franklin</p>
> > >     </blockquote>
> > 
> > I am wondering how such a quote should be rendered to be correct
> > (regardless of Markdown’s abilities for the moment). I always thought
> > the attribution should be indented or right aligned. 
> 
> I think it's a matter of taste. There's no established "correct" way
> to typeset an attribution like that. Indented and right-aligned are
> common, though.

OK. Then what about detecting this

> --Blah blah

and giving the paragraph a particular class, to be able to apply an indent?

Olivier

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