[spec] Ambiguity with regards to quote lines

[colecmac at protonmail.com]

What Amfora does tries to stay in line with the gemtext idea that each line stands
on its own. So quote lines are wrapped, and "> " is put in front of each one. But
if there is another quote line below, that's considered a separate quote line, and
is processed separately from the others, it's not made to be part of the previous
quote somehow.

So this gemtext:

> very long quote line very long quote line very long quote line very long quote line very long quote line
> another quote

might be rendered like this:

> very long quote line very long quote line very long quote line
> very long quote line very long quote line
> another quote


> What isn't clear is whether subsequent quote lines ought to be
> considered as part of the same quote block, ie, say my client surrounds
> quotations with " marks. Should these marks surround each line, or
> surround an entire block of subsequent quote lines?

Despite what I said above, I think it makes sense for other clients to consider
quote lines to be part of the same block. Amfora can get away with ignoring this,
but in a GUI client that maybe puts quotes in a box or something? It would look
pretty ugly to separate them, I think.


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