GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 732354
Improve appearance of quotes with blank lines
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:26:28 UTC
Some mailers (Mutt is one I've noticed) stick blank lines (without the quote prefix '>') into what should be a single blockquote. We (correctly, I think) parse this into several consecutive blockquotes. Not only is there a blank line between them, but our styling adds two sets of quote padding. The result is a lot of wasted space in these quote blocks. Since these blocks are only a few lines long, they don't get hiders. We could try to notice where quotes appear consecutively and combine them into a single quote container. This is questionable from a standards point of view, but few mails will container directly consecutive quotes that are intended to be separate. Perhaps simpler would be to reduce the amount of padding an margins between these quotes. We may be able to do this entirely with CSS, but I'm not entirely sure off hand.
(In reply to comment #0) > We could try to notice where quotes appear consecutively and combine them into > a single quote container. This is questionable from a standards point of view, > but few mails will container directly consecutive quotes that are intended to > be separate. I agree, this doesn't seem likely to be an intentional quoting effect. It's frustrating that Mutt does this. Do you know if there's a bug filed against it for this? (Is this intentional?) Reducing the margins might be okay, but I'd like to see what it looks like for a "normal" quote in a conversation.
I'm not sure that I understand this issue correctly... Blank lines are different from line breaks, right? It does not separate two paragraphs, but just add further empty space. If that's the case, I agree that it may be stripped. I've come here while searching for issues similar to bug 781178
I'm not sure what the official spec is for email, but when parsing markdown, ReText renders this: ``` before > quote_part_1 > quote_part_2 after ``` as this: ``` <p>before</p> <blockquote> <p>quote_part_1</p> <p>quote_part_2</p> </blockquote> <p>after</p> ``` regardless of how many newlines are included between the parts.
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