title: How do I insert a block quote within a paragraph using Pandoc?
body: <p>I am using pandoc to convert from markdown to LaTeX. My problem is that Pandoc seems to interpret paragraph text following a block quote as the start of a new paragraph. While this is often what I want, there are many times that I want to continue the paragraph preceeding the quote. This is achieved easily enough in LaTeX---I simply insert the quote environment into the paragraph without leaving any blank lines between the quote and the surrounding lines, like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>This is the first sentence of paragraph ONE.
  \begin{quote}
  This is a block quote.
  \end{quote}
  This is the second sentence of paragraph ONE.
  
  This is the first sentence of paragraph TWO.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But since Pandoc requires block quotes be followed by a blank line, the only output I can manage looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>This is the first sentence of paragraph ONE.
  
  \begin{quote}
  This is a block quote.
  \end{quote}
  
  This is the first sentence of paragraph TWO.
  
  This is the first sentence of paragraph THREE.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I get pandoc to output LaTeX like my first example?</p>