The discussion Issues quoting quotes began with Nihal_Noorunnabi describing difficulties with quoting text on a Discourse forum. When manually highlighting text to quote, the > symbol is not included, causing the quote to appear as if it’s from the person quoting instead of the original author.
NateDhaliwal suggested a workaround: selecting text below the blockquote. This method works for single-line quotes but not for multi-line quotes. Nihal_Noorunnabi tried this method and found it didn’t work for multi-line quotes.
NateDhaliwal then suggested selecting text above the blockquote, but this didn’t work either, as the blank space above the blockquote was included in the quote.
NateDhaliwal demonstrated that quoting text before or after the blockquote, including the blockquote, does include the > symbol. However, Nihal_Noorunnabi pointed out that this wasn’t the issue, as the problem occurred when highlighting only the text within the blockquote.
Ultimately, NateDhaliwal concluded that there isn’t a way to directly quote text within a blockquote without including the > symbol, and the suggested workaround is the best alternative. Nihal_Noorunnabi found this frustrating but appreciated the help.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
. The workaround is to use the method I suggested.