Posted by mojavelinux on URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/double-quotes-multi-line-paragraphs-tp3213p3219.html
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 1:26 AM, gour [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:
I thought there is (maybe) some escaping mechanism to do it
There is one way, but it's kind of a hack. You can force the paragraph to continue on and use hardbreaks instead actual paragraph boundaries.
[%hardbreaks]
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"`First phrase.
{empty}
Second phrase.`"
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However, I still stand by my opinion that Markdown and reStructuredText are not honoring the proper semantics for this scenario. Styling quotes, which is what these are, should not be put into the source document. They should be handled either by the converter or the styling mechanism (CSS). The delimited block boundaries are already providing the necessary semantics.
If it helps you think about it better, you can use the Asciidoctor-style quote block.