No way to indent text?

[david parsons]

In article <3561cc6d0908042326j34319e38wc333e41e3a0743d5 at mail.gmail.com>,
Dan Dascalescu  <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> 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.


    From looking at the wikipedia discussion page, it looks like
    the contributers are responsible for hand-formatting the page
    to make it look all pretty?   And the use of ^:+ or ^*+ is
    so that they can use wiki-style lists to do the indentation?

    If that's the case, it's just a matter of wikipedia using a
    different syntax to do the same sort of manual formatting of
    the discussion, and you would train the users to do markdown-
    style syntax instead.   (Or write a q&d preprocessor that
    expands ^:+ and ^*+ out into the appropriate levels of list
    for you.)



    -david "colo(u)r me confused" parsons