- return "<blockquote>\n" _nblock( gensub( /(^|\n)> /, "\n", "g", substr(block, 1, st - 1) ) ) "</blockquote>\n\n" \
+ return "<blockquote>" gensub( /^\n|\n$/, "", "g", _nblock( gensub( /(^|\n)> /, "\n", "g", substr(block, 1, st - 1) ) ) ) "</blockquote>\n\n" \