Quote Extends Past Quote Markup

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When entering text as a quote, the line following the quote without the “>” symbol is still styled as quote text and treated as a quote by Obsidian. In order to get “normal” text after a quote, it requires two line breaks instead of one.

Steps to reproduce

Type something as a quote.
Hit return
Text following the return does not have the quote character, but is still treated as a quote.

Expected result

Text on a line following a quote that does not have the “>” character should not be treated as a quote.

Actual result

Text on the lines following a quote is treated as a quote until two line returns are entered.

Environment

  • Operating system: Mac OS
  • Debug info:
    SYSTEM INFO:
    Obsidian version: v0.13.30
    Installer version: v0.13.23
    Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 21.3.0: Wed Jan 5 21:37:58 PST 2022; root:xnu-8019.80.24~20/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 21.3.0
    Login status: not logged in
    Insider build toggle: off
    Live preview: off
    Legacy editor: off
    Base theme: light
    Community theme: none
    Snippets enabled: 2
    Safe mode: off
    Plugins installed: 10
    Plugins enabled: 0

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Additional information

Here is a screenshot showing the issue:

Screen Shot 2022-03-07 at 10.09.29 PM
Screen Shot 2022-03-07 at 10.09.29 PM1920×1305 223 KB

2

Users need to press enter on an empty line to exit block quotes:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-13-28-insider-build/33274

Installers need to be updated:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v0-13-30/33594

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Angel

3

yes you need to have a blank line. It’s part of the spec.

4

Awesome–I’ll install the new version. Thanks!

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5

In the latest version of Obsidian, it still requires two blank lines after a quote to format properly. If there is only one blank line, text is not formatted correctly. If I understand the spec correctly this seems to be a bug? Or are two blank lines explicitly required after a quote?

6

Show me this happening in the help vault.

7

The format is

> Quote
> Still quote
Still quote

Not quote.
8

Here’s an example: Dropbox - 202203014 Obsidian Quotes.mov - Simplify your life

Maybe I’m missing something obvious, but I would expect two returns to exit the quote. Instead Obsidian seems to exit the quote (there is no more ident) but it still styles the text as a quote until there are three returns.

9

Once again, the spec requires a blank line between a quote and a non quote. You screenshot shows that with a blank line you achive separation. I don’t see a bug here.

There is another scheduled change to the way return acts in quotes in 0.14, but the spec remains: you need a blank line to terminate a quotation.

10

Right, but shouldn’t it only require two returns to get a blank line after a quote and not three? In this case Obsidian doesn’t seem to recognize the first blank line after a quote and instead requires two blank lines.