markdown block quotes with ">" get rendered as "> text" if the ">" isn't preceded by a newline. How to always turn ">" into "\begin{quote}"?

[ReaderGuy42]

I just switched from pdftex to luatex and now some stuff is working differently.

In my markdown files I use quote blocks with > I'd like to always be converted to \begin{quote}

e.g. my markdown note might look like this

page number 23
> first qoute

further text

> further quote

because there's no newline before the first blockquote, LaTeX or Pandoc instead turn it into \textgreater{} which prints it as page-number 23>abc text

In this case, the pandoc command would be pandoc -r markdown-auto_identifiers -w latex test.md -o test.tex

and then this gets rendered in LaTeX as:

page number 23 \textgreater{} first qoute

further text

\begin{quote}
further quote
\end{quote}

and as PDF as:

I was told on reddit to post this here as this isn't expected behavior.

How can I achieve always having > be converted to \begin{quote} and \end{quote} (following the block quote)?

Pandoc version?

pandoc 3.1.6.2
Features: +server +lua
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4

[ReaderGuy42]

This was a misunderstanding on my part. Using markdown-blank_before_blockquote solves this. Thanks!