[xwiki-devs] [Rendering] Wiki syntax for quotes and block quote?

Jean-Vincent Drean jv at xwiki.com
Fri Jul 25 11:20:31 CEST 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
>
> In CommonSyntax quotation blocks starts with the ">" symbol as I wrote
> in the example above.
>

AFAICS quotations aren't handled in Creole, does it come from another
wiki syntax or from CommonSyntax itself ?

> I don't think we've really been using leading spaces to represent
> quotes

Me neither.

> Also I don't think the space character is a good character for this.

Neither do I.

> So my question here:
> Do we want to have a syntax for quotes/block quotes? And what
> character to use?
>
> I think we do want to have this syntax and the ">" character sounds
> good to me.
>

+1, I guess copy/pasted emails would look nice with this feature.

-- 
Jean-Vincent Drean


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