Indenting Markdown Blockquotes

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Dear Tinderbox users,

I’d like to indent Markdown blockquotes in the Text view of my notes, so I defined a blockquote pattern in a Highlighter, but the blockquotes in my notes remain unindented.

I think the blockquote pattern I defined is correct — or at least so it seems when I tested in RegExr. Moreover, by using that same pattern I can italicized blockquotes in my notes.

I’ve uploaded a test file in which I’ve been able to italicize a blockquote in a note and in which I’ve been unable to indent a blockquote in another note.

Could somebody please be so kind as to tell me what I’m doing wrong? Thank you.

Sincerely,
Enrico

Blockquote Test.tbx (253.5 KB)

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I’m not sure. I’ll investigate.

In the mean time, try including the "> " in the regular expression, so it, too, will be indented.

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Thank you for looking into that. In the meantime, I’ve changed the regex from ^>\s.+ to >\s.+. According to RegExr, the > is included in the match, and accordingly it is italicized — but not indented — in Tinderbox.

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There are two highlighter commands: indent and first-indent. I believe you want first-indent.

pattern: ^>\s.+
    first-indent: 30
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Thank you for looking into that. I should have mentioned in the opening post that I had tried that too but to no success: the blockquote remains unindented whether I use indent or first-indent. My apologies for the omission.

In the meantime, however, I found out that for some reason both indent and first-indent work if I also italicize the blockquote — i.e. if I use either of the following in the Highlighter:

pattern: >\s.+
    italic: yes
    first-indent: 30

pattern: >\s.+
    italic: yes
    indent: 30

I changed the pattern from ^>\s.+ to >\s.+ to ensure that blockquotes that are not at the beginning of the text string are also matched by the expression.

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Consistent with my previous post, if you’d like to indent blockquotes, but you don’t want to italicize them, you simply have to set a Highlighter to the following:

pattern: >\s.+
    size: 16
    first-indent: 30

16 points is my default font size, which means that with that Highlighter the text size of body and blockquotes will be the same.