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and I recommend doing that. Put a >
at the start of each paragraph and each empty line to be included in the blockquote. The html tag for blockquote is <blockquote>quoted text</blockquote>
but although this can operate over multiple paragraphs it may not work as you intend or consistently and you might need additional tags for newlines and other formatting inside the block (also it is not very likely to save you much typing).