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Italics works fine for quote IMO
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I propose using four underscores as a delimiter of a quote block, like asciidoctor, in addition to italics. I think it looks better than the markdown way of using ">" in front of a quote as it can get quite cumbersome and ugly when you're quoting multiple lines of something. However, I generally enjoy using markdown more if it works on a website. It just looks ugly IMO if it doesn't.
the markdown way of using ">"
I think you'll find the practice of prefixing quoted lines with ">" originated with old Unix email and Usenet.
I’m rather young (on the border of Gen Y and Gen Z) so I guess I’m not old enough to have used either old Unix email or Usenet, so thank you for that tidbit.
No problem. Wasn't mean to be sarcastic, but reading back it may come across that way.
Italics works fine for quote IMO.