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, but if I manually highlight the whole thing or highlight parts of it to quote it does its from me: Looking at the left side. I guess discourse doesn’t copy the > when manually highlighting stuff. Is there a way around this? Is this intended? Any solutions besides telling people to be more mindful when quoting.

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.

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

[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 seem to work. Hmm. Let me put a block quote in here to make it this easier if you’re still willing to help. 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 story of how the humble pizza came to enjoy such global dominance reveals much about the history of migration, economics and technological change.

[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 story of how the humble pizza came to enjoy such global dominance reveals much about the history of migration, economics and technological change. If I quote that text before or after the blockquote, including the blockquote, the > is included in the quote.

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 in the United States alone, an average of 46 slices per person. But the story of how the humble pizza came to enjoy such global dominance reveals much about the history of migration, economics and technological change.” leads to this: [image] Nihal Noorunnabi: 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 story of how the humble pizza came to enjoy such global dominance reveals much about the history of migration, economics and technological change.

[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!

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Nihal_Noorunnabi (Nihal Noorunnabi) February 23, 2025, 2:39am 9

Kk. Thats a little frustrating. Thank you for your time though!

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