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Note that Salon's Rev. 0.0.1 pre-Beta HTML parser seems to have difficulty with nesting of tags, and therefore drops such tags as italics or bold if you put in blockquotes ... so if you want them to persist through or beyond a blockquote, you should terminate them and then reinstate them past the blockquote.
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