No way to indent text?

[Milian Wolff]

Dan Dascalescu wrote:

> How could one indent (not quote) a block of text?

> 

> This is commonly done in Wikipedia with one or more colons at the

> beginning of the line, and is very handy for threaded discussions.

> 

> An example is at

> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/MojoMojo&diff=next&oldid=275101911


You have to think semtically: Why do you want to indent it? I bet 
because it's some kind of quote. Hence use blockquote syntax of 
Markdown. Just start each line with a ">" like in email-quotes.

The default style for blockquote is indenting it afair.

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Milian Wolff
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