Template:Blockquote paragraphs
Due to the utterly intractable MediaWiki bug reported at Template:Bugzilla, and still unfixed as of February 2012[update], block quoting on Wikipedia, with or without a template, cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like, unless formatted one very specific (and annoying) way.
The problem in action: test cases that seem like they should work but fail |
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The intuitive choice:
results in the mangled: Blank lines seem to work at first:
though with quite tall spacing between the content blocks (lines, in our test cases): Yet this markup fails with wiki ":" indentation: Just trying to use
results in odd spacing, with the middle blocks too close together: Meanwhile this version seems ok at first:
but again can't be indented: As of February 2012[update], the only solution for the problem is to use unbroken markup with
which, while hard to read, especially for long content, results in the expected: And it does work with wikimarkup ":" indentation, unlike the failed test cases above: Happily, there is an HTML-comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want:
or even:
which results in the expected: They are indentable: |