How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

[David Chambers]

Another (ugly) option: 

<blockquote>
quote 1
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
quote 2
</blockquote>


<blockquote>
quote 3
</blockquote>


This is no good, though, if the quotes contain markup of their own, as you'll be forced to write that in HTML too.

David 


On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 1:27 PM, Waylan Limberg wrote:


> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Waylan Limberg <waylan at gmail.com (mailto:waylan at gmail.com)> wrote:

> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Thomas Maibaum <thomasmaibaum at gmail.com (mailto:thomasmaibaum at gmail.com)> wrote:

> > > Hello everyone,

> > > 

> > > First off, I'm new to this list, so if this has been dealt with before, I

> > > apologize. I was unable to find a solution in Google.

> > > 

> > > My question is, how do I insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs

> > > so that they are visually separate? I often need to put two or three

> > > separate blockquotes in a row, without any regular text between them, but

> > > Markdown always renders the HTML output like one long quote. Like this:

> > > 

> > 

> > 

> > Well, if you don't want the output to be visible, and as Markdown

> > accepts raw html, why not an html comment. Like this:

> > 

> > http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=%3E+foo%0A%0A%3C!--+blank+line+--%3E%0A%0A%3E+bar%0A%0A%3C!--+blank+line+--%3E%0A%0A%3E+baz

> 

> You can even eliminate some of the blank lines like this:

> 

> http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=%3E+foo%0A%0A%3C!--+blank+line+--%3E%0A%3E+bar%0A%0A%3C!--+blank+line+--%3E%0A%3E+baz

> 

> Although that breaks pandoc in strange ways. However, all other

> implementations handle that fine and you save a few blank lines in

> your document. The rest are necessary though.

> 

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