Block quotes with a blank line between them get merged

[Jacob Rus]

A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> * Waylan Limberg <waylan at gmail.com> [2006-10-18 16:20]:

>> I considered suggesting some "force-end-of-block" marker, but

>> that just doesn't seem right.

> 

> Maybe an considered-unindented less-than character?


I don't like this idea.  I think that the two blank line (or three? why 
three again?) convention would be perfectly fine.  As a way to 
explicitly continue a list (despite a few empty-looking lines), a user 
could perhaps indent out to the level of the list.  For instance

       * This is a list item
       * This is another list item

         With some long and complex paragraphs


       * We wanted two empty lines above to visually clear the way for
         this third list item, which could otherwise look cluttered.

         So our method was to explicitly add an indent to the blank
         lines so that the list is continued.


       * The nice thing about this method is that it's easy to
         unambiguously parse the document.  Any single blank lines
         can essentially be ignored (though they end paragraphs),
         but two newlines in a row with no spaces between can always
         exit out of any block-level elements, back to the top level.

       * This also seems to me to be perfectly consistent with the
         official markdown specification.


       * This is a new list, because the previous line did not continue
         the indentation.

What do people think?

-Jacob