We are transitioning into our new community and need to pull a few messages from an old system in for a while. That involves quoting from external sources. Luckily there is a nice [quote] system. We should be able to paste in the text, put a [quote=“name”] at the start of the text, [/quote] at the …

[image] Cardinalflyer: Luckily there is a nice [quote] system. We should be able to paste in the text, put a at the end and it should indent and label… and collapse! Very cool. But it doesn’t seem to do that across paragraphs. It works within a normal reply as intended… reply to a post, click …

I think you need to put a newline after the quote like [quote] Text Another paragraph [/quote]

To add a bit more detail to this for future searchers, here’s what my testing showed about the [quote] tags when added manually, as when quoting text from outside Discourse: If you are quoting a single paragraph, the start and stop tags can be in stream without linefeeds. If quoting multiple p…

Alternatively select each block you want to quote and just press the quote which floats beside it. The selected text will be copied into the reply window with correctly formatted tags. If you want to use multiple quotes you can repeat the process. No need to copy and paste, each quote will be corr…

I think that he is quoting from an external source, hence all of the confusion.

Citation d'une manière inhabituelle... des indices sur pourquoi cela ne gère pas plusieurs paragraphes ?

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Cardinalflyer (Keith Peterson) Août 13, 2019, 4:00 4

Well, how about that! You nailed it, @pfaffman, and I thought I had tested that. It was the closing quote tag which needed the newline. Thanks!

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Citation d'une manière inhabituelle... des indices sur pourquoi cela ne gère pas plusieurs paragraphes ?

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