Extension: blank_before_blockquote
Standard Markdown syntax does not require a blank line before a block quote. Pandoc does require this (except, of course, at the beginning of the document). The reason for the requirement is that it is all too easy for a >
to end up at the beginning of a line by accident (perhaps through line wrapping). So, unless the markdown_strict
format is used, the following does not produce a nested block quote in pandoc:
> This is a block quote.
>> Nested.