Thread:Feedback/Social effects of quoting/80.98.223.21

Using markup with a single-line scope is usually just asking for trouble. It is hard to see whether it is formatted right (you cant tell the difference between line breaks and wraps in the edit box). Very meticulous to add to a larger block of text (which might come from another page) by hand. (Okay, normally we don't want people to add large blocks of text so that's not so bad :) There would be probably some gotchas in interaction with other markup that's required to be at the beginning of the line. If the copied text included a template which expands into multiple lines it will unexpectedly (and unavoidably, unless you subst it) break the formatting. There is no place to put additional information (such as where or who the quote is from).

If you want something simple, Python's multiline string syntax is pretty intuitive (though it still leaves the last problem open; also, notations where the start and the end tag is the same have their own problems):

""" This is a multi-paragraph quotation.

Hell yeah. """