<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Lost the battle about how to type it, but won the war of display. Convention is now that paragraphs/lines preceded with ">" are rendered with a left border, which is basically the effect you were going for in the first place. </div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, at 3:26 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>I've been using "| " to prefix each quoted line in email.<br></div><div>I've done this since before "> " became a convention.<br></div><div>Perhaps 45 years.<br></div><div>I think that it looks better and clearer.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I've just given up that fight. The trouble is I confuse too many <br></div><div>correspondents who aren't aware of this. And too many of their MUAs.<br></div><div>---<br></div><div>Post to this mailing list <a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a><br></div><div>Unsubscribe from this mailing list <a href="https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk">https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>