Quote char handling, but disabled

diff --git a/.mutt/markdown2html b/.mutt/markdown2html
index e3c2b302a6b593daa6e2f6bb4b4613e502e3aca3..fba46066e259fd278ee46e0aaedbeda79f0a9a7c 100755 (executable)
--- a/.mutt/markdown2html
+++ b/.mutt/markdown2html
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ DEFAULT_CSS += '''
     color: #999;
     font-size: 80%;
 }
+.quotechar { display: none; }
 .footnote-ref, .footnote-back { text-decoration: none;}
 .signature {
     color: #999;
@@ -100,6 +101,14 @@ def _preprocess_markdown(mdwn):
     # regexp will not match between paragraphs.
     ret = re.sub(r'(\S)\n(\s*\S)', r'\g<1>  \n\g<2>', mdwn, flags=re.MULTILINE)
 
+    # Clients like Thunderbird need the leading '>' to be able to properly
+    # create nested quotes, so we duplicate the symbol, the first instance
+    # will tell pandoc to create a blockquote, while the second instance will
+    # be a <span> containing the character, along with a class that causes CSS
+    # to actually hide it from display. However, this does not work with the
+    # text-mode HTML2text converters, and so it's left commented for now.
+    #ret = re.sub(r'\n>', r'  \n>[>]{.quotechar}', ret, flags=re.MULTILINE)
+
     return ret