It would be good to handle quoted literal blocks for rst

[jgm]

ReStructuredText has a form called "Quoted Literal Block".  I've quoted the spec below.

pandoc doesn't recognize this form, and converts into an ordinary paragraph.

From spec:

Quoted Literal Blocks

Quoted literal blocks are unindented contiguous blocks of text where each line begins with the same non-alphanumeric printable 7-bit ASCII character [5]. A blank line ends a quoted literal block. The quoting characters are preserved in the processed document.
[5] 

The following are all valid quoting characters:

! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~

Note that these are the same characters as are valid for title adornment of sections.




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[jgm]

Pandoc's rst parser handles quoted literal blocks using the '|' character. I didn't know you could also use these other characters -- perhaps that is a recent addition? In any case, I don't see how a rst parser is supposed to know whether

• one
• two

is a quoted literal block or a list! Also, I tried with rst2html (from Docutils 0.7), and while '>' and '|' worked, '}' did not.

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[jgm]

That's interesting. It isn't working for me. Can you post the rst you used
where it worked, so I can see if there's something wrong with my source?
(I'm not producing the rst, just trying to convert it.)

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[jgm]

Oops, I was confusing "line blocks" (using |) with quoted literal blocks. Only the former are supported in pandoc.
Though I wonder how the rst parser is supposed to know whether

| hi
| there

is a line block or a quoted literal block?
It seems to match the specification for both.

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