title: Pandoc Markdown to HTML blockquote style
body: <p>I'm trying to find a good solution to writing my emails in Markdown, and styling them for general consumption, in Thunderbird.</p>
  <p>My previous solution, the add-on <a href="https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Markdown-here</a> is not maintained, and no longer works with the latest Thunderbird versions.</p>
  <p>One approach I've tried to some success is using pandoc, and inserting the contents of the HTML file via <code>Insert-&gt;HTML</code>.</p>
  <p>E.g.:</p>
  <p><strong>email.md</strong></p>
  <pre><code>Hi there, *this* is a **test** email written in `markdown`
  </code></pre>
  <p><strong>pandoc command</strong></p>
  <pre><code>pandoc email.md -t html -o email.html
  </code></pre>
  <p><strong>email.html</strong></p>
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;Hi there, &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; is a &lt;strong&gt;test&lt;/strong&gt; email written in &lt;code&gt;markdown&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>However, the formatting is not always what I want.  For example, in Markdown-here, it used to resembles the rendering of StackOverflow for blockquotes</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Blockquotes look like this</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>However, in my pandoc-&gt;Thunderbird workflow, HTML elements like this:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;Blockquotes looks like this&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>are rendered as indented text like:</p>
  <p>            Blockquotes look like this</p>
  <p>Which makes my emails less easy to follow.</p>
  <p>I've read about pandoc having a <code>--css</code> flag, where you can define a CSS sheet to use, e.g. <code>s --css=styling.css</code>.  However, nothing I've tried seems to work.</p>
  <p>Does anyone know how to embed changes to the blockquote styles of generated HTML in pandoc to more closely follow the rendered markdown styles of StackOverflow and GitHub?</p>