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Tagged with code-formatting blockquote
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Formatting tips below the body textbox of a post are wrong
When posting a question or answer, there is a formatting help below the body textbox, which includes tips for how to format code, make text bold or italic, and quote text:
However, the tips for ...
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Quote button shouldn't reformat code in triple-backticks
I've seen Blockquote rewrap destroys code, but that question (and answer) are about the situation where a user mistakenly uses the quote button instead of the code button.
I instead want to use both. ...
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How can I automatically edit all my answers and questions so that no quotes are broken down?
The CommonMark migration messed up the formatting of many of my posts. Specifically, one common issue is that my quotes are now broken down, e.g.:
instead of
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Did the automated CommonMark migration mess up the formatting of this answer?
I suspect the automated CommonMark migration messed up the formatting of this answer.
Before the migration to CommonMark: https://web.archive.org/web/20200515072655/https://unix.stackexchange.com/...
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Quotation of code on meta sites differs from the main ones
When I add code in quote on main sites it looks fine:
But if I do same on meta, result is significantly differs:
As you can see, only the text is highlighted, not the whole line.
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Quoting Code-Block with linewraps breaks the code
When quoting a code-block with lines wrapping due to their length, applying the blockquote-format results in breakage:
for (GroupMembers groupMembers : groupMembersList) {
Notification ...
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Hidden quotes with code formatting are broken on beta sites
The code formatting background only displays when you have clicked on it and it is on always "visible" mode.
The text that is code blocks (fixed width) disappears before the main text. They do the ...
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Should error logs be formatted as code or quote?
When I see an unformatted error log, I format it as
code
I've noticed, however, that some other users format them as
quotes
Which is better?
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"Quote" button breaks formatting
I was editing this question on russian.SE where the OP was asking about the meaning of a Russian poem. As the poem itself wasn't formatted properly, I wanted to fix the line breaks to make it easier ...
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Editing question changing code to block quote is still formatted as code
I asked a question on StackOverflow and later added some more information. I included a quote initially in a code block, but then I edited the question, highlighted those two lines, and clicked the "...
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Why can't we use the well known [code] and [quote] tags to markup our posts?
Personally, when creating posts, I find it very frustrating not to be able to effectively mark a quotation as we normally would in the vast majority of forums. Simply being able to do it using [quote][...
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Code is incorrectly wrapped when applying blockquote style
Often, I embed code snippets from other sites as actual block quotes (together with their explanation).
Expected result
Let's take this absolutely nonsense example. I want to see this output:
If ...
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How to Escape BackTicks Within a Blockquote
This is close to being a duplicate question, but I'm adding it to make it easier to find the answer in searches.
Question:
How do you include backtick characters within a blockquote? For instance, ...
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Allow highlighting certain bits of a code fragment or quote
It would be nice to be able to put emphasis on specific bits of a fragment or of a quote (bold can help for a quote but I find that it makes things less readable sometimes).
What do you think?
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Bug in the display of blockquotes
I've just posted a question on Stack Overflow and noticed problems in the display of the blockquote.
Some parts of the code wasn't displayed at all. For example this piece of code which is on one ...
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