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[spec] Ambiguity with regards to quote lines

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Sun Jan 3 19:02:06 GMT 2021

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alex wennerberg <alex at alexwennerberg.com> writes:

Hi all --

I noticed there may be a bit of ambiguity in the spec:

Lines beginning with "

" are quote lines. This line type exists so

that advanced clients may use distinct styling to convey to readers the

important semantic information that certain text is being quoted from

an external source. For example, when wrapping long lines to the the

viewport, each resultant line may have a "

" symbol placed at the front.

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?

The clients that I tested did the latter, and this seems intuitively

correct, but the spec doesn't make this explicit.

The spec says that the only state that a parser need to keep is the onefor the preformatted block, so I guess the intention is to treatsubsequent quotes as distinct quotes, the same way subsequent paragraphsare considered distinct.

Let me know what you all think.

All the best,

Alex