In order to appear as a side-comment, quotes should be an exact match, including formatting
This might be inconvenient for markdown editor users. Because, when you copy text into the markdown editor, it loses the formatting. It would be nice if either formatting was ignored for side-comment matching purposes, or if copying formatted text into markdown would automatically add the relevant tags (the latter would have other benefits as well).
It should probably also match blockquotes where it’s been edited at all, like adding ‘...’ ellipses to condense or links or even just simple spelling error/typo fixes. (I do a lot of all of those.) One might look at systems that try to link specific ranges of HTML text for how to do ‘loose’ matches which don’t break at the drop of a hat.
This might be inconvenient for markdown editor users. Because, when you copy text into the markdown editor, it loses the formatting. It would be nice if either formatting was ignored for side-comment matching purposes, or if copying formatted text into markdown would automatically add the relevant tags (the latter would have other benefits as well).
It should probably also match blockquotes where it’s been edited at all, like adding ‘...’ ellipses to condense or links or even just simple spelling error/typo fixes. (I do a lot of all of those.) One might look at systems that try to link specific ranges of HTML text for how to do ‘loose’ matches which don’t break at the drop of a hat.