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Posted Jun 14, 2012 12:19 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Parent article: Quotes of the week

You want <pre>, I think.

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Posted Jun 14, 2012 12:45 UTC (Thu) by przemoc (guest, #67594) [Link]

You're right. I tried <pre> at the beginning, but there is this ridiculous requirement of dealing by hand with & and other stuff in HTML that I went with other tags before carefully reading the note. There is also an old <xmp> tag, treating everything in it as-is, but it's not universally supported.

Having Markdown as a third option for format would be really nice in such cases. The only problem is indentation that is tiring unless you have a vi/xclip+sed/etc. close. The solution is a fenced code blocks (~~~) extension, available in many implementations.

But it's OT here, sorry.