From 4198ceb4b34201452a345b29401cb5b852ca322c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:40:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] merge adjacent blockquotes when transforming gemtext -> HTML

---
 website/src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/website/src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro b/website/src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro
index 4fe82c2..86cdcfe 100644
--- a/website/src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro
+++ b/website/src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro
@@ -52,9 +52,18 @@ const GemtextHTMLRenderer: Gemtext.Renderer<string> = {
   }
 };
 
+function postProcessGemtextToHtml(html: string): string {
+  html = mergeAdjacentBlockquotes(html);
+  return html;
+}
+
+function mergeAdjacentBlockquotes(html: string): string {
+  return html.replaceAll(/\<\/blockquote\>\<blockquote\>/gm, '<br>');
+}
+
 const post = Astro.props;
 const Content = post.filePath?.endsWith('.gmi')
-  ? Gemtext.parse((post.body ?? '').replace(`# ${post.data.title}`, '')).generate(GemtextHTMLRenderer)
+  ? postProcessGemtextToHtml(Gemtext.parse((post.body ?? '').replace(`# ${post.data.title}`, '')).generate(GemtextHTMLRenderer))
   : (await render(post)).Content;
 ---