diff --git a/themes/v2/layouts/partials/gemtext.gmi b/themes/v2/layouts/partials/gemtext.gmi
index 0e95b9d..c9e8692 100644
--- a/themes/v2/layouts/partials/gemtext.gmi
+++ b/themes/v2/layouts/partials/gemtext.gmi
@@ -47,12 +47,13 @@
 
 {{- /* Misc. markup fixes */ -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `<!--more-->\n+` "" -}}
-{{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^  >` ">" -}}
+{{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^[ ]+>` ">" -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^  \*` "* ⇢" -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^- ` "* " -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^[\*-]{3}$` "✱ ✱ ✱" -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `=> /(.+\.pdf)` (printf "=> %s$1" site.BaseURL) -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `=> /(elsewhere[^ ])` (printf "=> %s$1" site.BaseURL) -}}
+{{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)^(\* [^\n]+)\n\n  ` "$1 " -}}
 {{- $content = $content | replaceRE `(?m)\n{3,}` "\n\n" }}
 
 {{- $content | safeHTML -}}