Adding a render hook for blockquotes

[davidsneighbour]

Short version: I propose to add a render hook for blockquote markup. Current Markdown just adds a blockquote tag around it, but I would like "better quotes" in my code.

Long version:

• I have a shortcode currently that adds a blockquote with some extra formats: {{< quote source="link to the source" title="title for the source link" >}}quote{{</quote>}} will add some code with a cite element and in there a link to the source
• Using remark and remark-lint-write-good will mark my shortcode as bad quite often because I am employing a "no passive voice" policy and people in quotes tend to talk a lot in passive voice.
• I have to add manually <!--lint disable write-good--> brackets around these shortcoded quotes
• using remark on a simple blockquote markdown line (> the quote) does not fail (seems like they already catch language by "others", but I can't add a link to the source.

Another workaround would be:

> The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. 
> -- <cite>[Albert Einstein][1]</cite>

[1]: http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/2112

but that introduces HTML into my markdown which I consider bad style too.

[maelle]

Although I had not thought of blockquotes, this reminds me of my wondering about render hooks for all sorts of tags. https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/markdown-render-hooks-for-all-the-things/28782

[bep]

I have said this before, but: we're not adding render hooks for "all sorts of tags", including blockquotes. Adding styles to tags needs another solution.

[davidsneighbour]

The cite element is not a style. It's a sub-element to demark the source of a blockquote. You closed this without reading the issue on top. There is no way to write a cite element with proper markdown and without adding HTML to the markdown.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/cite
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2002120/citing-the-author-of-a-blockquote-using-markdown-syntax

[maelle]

PS: yes I used the wrong word, tag, and created confusion sorry. 🙈

[bep]

See #7548

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