Wikitext formatting: an italicized quote with hard line breaks

#1

I am trying to get this quote to be italicized but have been unsuccessful.

<<<
"""
“If you have only five minutes in your day to practice your shakuhachi, play RO.”
— Fukuda Teruhisa
"""
<<<

What is the proper syntax in Wikitext to italicize text this way ?

#2

you need to use //

<<<
"""
//If you have only five minutes in your day to practice your shakuhachi, play RO.//
— Fukuda Teruhisa
"""
<<<
#3

I’ll use that for now. Thanks @VikingMage

what I originally tried was the entire quote + name in italics, but it for some reason breaks the hard line breaks

<<<
"""
// “If you have only five minutes in your day to practice your shakuhachi, play RO.”
— Fukuda Teruhisa //
"""
<<<
#4

You can also apply it to the whole section

<<<
//
"""
If you have only five minutes in your day to practice your shakuhachi, play RO.
— Fukuda Teruhisa
"""
//
<<<
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#5

FYI, you can also add quote attributions like this…

<<<
//If you have only five minutes in your day to practice your shakuhachi, play RO.//
<<< — Fukuda Teruhisa

… which will automatically italicize the citation, if you haven’t changed the blockquote > cite styling. This should also let you drop the triple quotes.

You could also add a CSS class to the blockquote itself. The docs give the example

<<<.tc-big-quote
A dramatic quote
<<< Somebody Important

but you could use <<<.italic with CSS class .italic { font-style: italic; } and avoid the wikitext italics altogether.

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#6

original wikitext:

<<<
“”"
“If you have only five minutes in your day to practice your shakuhachi, play RO.”
— Fukuda Teruhisa
“”"
<<<

my modifications:

<<<.tc-big-quote
“//If you have only five minutes in your day to practice your shakuhachi, play RO.//”
<<< Fukuda Teruhisa

  1. text between // … // is italicised
  2. I removed the three double quotes - as unless you are formatting poetry they aren’t terribly useful.
  3. <<<.tc-big-quote - puts big quotation marks round your quote - it therefore stands out the .tc-big-quote is default option
  4. I moved the quoted source to after the <<< as that places it in a good position and you can then link it to another tiddler on Fukuda Teruhisa giving his biography and kanji etc.

Hope that is helpful.

John Warner.

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#7

I did not know that! Everyday is a school day. :slight_smile: