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From: "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Nested quote blocks?
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 07:27:59 +0000
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On Tuesday,  3 Mar 2020 at 12:57, Tim Visher wrote:
> Is there a way to get nested quotes blocks to work?

What is your actual goal?  That is, what you do mean by "to work"?  I
ask because although, as Nicolas has said, you cannot do this directly
with org, you can achieve some specific goals with special blocks and/or
drawers.  For instance, if your goal were to export to LaTeX, this code
would do the job:

#+begin_src org
  ,#+latex_header: \let\myquote\quote
  ,* testing nested blocks
  Joe said:

  ,#+begin_quote
  This is the outer block.

  ,#+begin_myquote
  and this is the inner block
  ,#+end_myquote

  followed by the outer block.
  ,#+end_quote

  and that is all folks.
#+end_src

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.6-354-g9d5880