Block quotes with a blank line between them get merged

[John Gruber]

Jacob Rus <jrus at hcs.harvard.edu> wrote on 10/18/06 at 12:13 PM:


> That's easy; the user will remember to add spaces (or tabs) up

> to the indent which starts a code block.  For instance (where

> I'm highlighting spaces with a drawn glyph.  Interpret those

> as " ":


No. I don't like rules that you can't "see".

Exception that proves the rule: the "two spaces at the end of a
line for a <br />" rule.



> Incidentally, I don't think that we need any more explicit

> symbolic marker for code blocks.  One of the things I most

> like about markdown's syntax is that a simple indentation puts

> us into a code block, without any unnecessary clutter.


It would be in addition to the current syntax, and should remain
out of your way if you don't like it.

-J.G.