I’m not too tech savvy. On a forum I’m on that uses discourse some people are having issues accurately quoting. I think its better if I show: [image] all in one picture cause i’m a new user If I double click the “most researchers” part it quotes correctly It shows that the quote is not from me,…

What if you select some text below and the blockquote? Will that work?

That kinda works. Well. correction it fully work for like one line text like I have in my picture above. So thank you for that, but do you have a suggestion if it was something multi-line? Like this: [image] Also the trick you mentioned doesn’t seem to work if there is no text below it.

[image] Nate Dhaliwal: Hmm… try selecting the text above the blockquote and the multi-line blockquote I assume you mean this black space: [image] in between. That is going into quoting my block quote. It doesn’t work. Unlike quoting from below if there is space, quoting from above doesn’t s…

[image] Nihal Noorunnabi: From A History of Pizza | History Today : Pizza is the world’s favourite fast food. We eat it everywhere – at home, in restaurants, on street corners. Some three billion pizzas are sold each year in the United States alone, an average of 46 slices per person. But the …

Hmm. Did you do this(?): [image] I was more so talking about if just highlighted from this (no screenshot cause im limited to one picture): “Pizza is the world’s favourite fast food. We eat it everywhere – at home, in restaurants, on street corners. Some three billion pizzas are sold each year i…

[image] Nihal Noorunnabi: Hmm. Did you do this(?) Yes, I did. [image] Nihal Noorunnabi: I was more so talking about if just highlighted from this AFAIK there isn’t a way to do this :thinking:. The workaround is to use the method I suggested.

[image] Nate Dhaliwal: AFAIK there isn’t a way to do this :thinking:. The workaround is to use the method I suggested. Kk. Thats a little frustrating. Thank you for your time though!

Issues quoting quotes

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) February 23, 2025, 2:19am 4

Hmm… try selecting the text above the blockquote and the multi-line blockquote. (From ‘Coffee, in general’ to ‘15th century’)

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