Simulating Quote Blocks

You can simulate:

<quote>

As an element of language, a pattern is an instruction, which shows how this spatial configuration can be used, over and over again, to resolve the given system of forces, wherever the context makes it relevant.

</quote>

like this:

TAB space ":" TAB As an element of language, a pattern is an instruction, which shows how this spatial configuration can be used, over and over again, to resolve the given system of forces, wherever the context makes it relevant.

-- Complaints :-) to JimCoplien

TAB space : TAB creates a definition list for an empty term. Nifty reuse of the TextFormattingRules! It's not nifty, and semantically wrong. YMMV.

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Is this new? I tried the exact same thing just last week and it didn't work for me. -- BradAppleton

Ahh - I see what happened. I tried TAB ':' TAB (no space before the ':'). That extra space makes the difference (otherwise it gets interpreted as verbatim text).

Now if only I could split the paragraph across lines so I could use italic/bold in more than one place in the paragraph. Ward, have you upgraded Wiki to Perl5 yet? Can you make it use the "stingy" operator ('?') when matching RegularExpression-matching emboldened and italicized text? -- BradAppleton

My only complaint is that I can never remember this rule -- I have to visit this page about every other week to remind myself how to do it. Thanks for the ever-useful tip! -- BillTrost

I much prefer the way that UseModWiki handles this. Using Tabs in a web browser is silly, and typing that many space to indent seems a bit anti-productive. In UseModWiki you just start the line with a colon ... which is a bit easier. -- EvanLanglois

Never heard of 'stingy' before, do you mean 'non-greedy'? -- StijnSanders

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Discussion on HTML tags moved to WhyDoesntWikiDoHtml.

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