Hi Bastien! I have tried to attach the two files. Please let me know your findings here. Thanks in advance Best regards Thomas > Den 5. jan. 2022 kl. 22.18 skrev Bastien DUMONT : > > Sorry, I just tried with pandoc 2.16.2 and it worked as expected... Maybe you could share you exact input and output files restricted to this minimal example? > > Le Wednesday 05 January 2022 à 08:49:54PM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard a écrit : >> Hi Bastien! >> >> Here is the result from 2.16.2 converted from Markdown to docx: >> >> This is a paragraph. After it, a blank line will be inserted. >> > This is the following paragraph. >> >> I see a strange character there where the blank line should have ben inserted. >> >> I use Markdown quite extensively when using Braille, the way blind and visually impaired people read with their fingers. >> I have a braille display connected to my computer and therefor I can get nice results via Markdown, I use Pandoc for converting documents when I need them to look elegant. >> Yes, I could use Word, but I preer Markdown and plain text. :) >> Do you think I have found a bug here? >> >> Best regards Thomas >>> Den 5. jan. 2022 kl. 14.12 skrev Bastien DUMONT : >>> >>> I don't get any special character in DOCX, but I still use pandoc 2.14. If the exact code I wrote produces one in v. 2.16.2, this may be a bug. >>> >>> Don't write the backslash between two blank lines if you want only one blank line: this indicates a paragraph containing a line break, so you will end up with two blank lines in the output. Instead, write the backslash on the line immediately preceding the paragraph, as I showed in my example. >>> >>> In what cases do you want to insert some blank space before a paragraph? It would probably be better achieved through styling. >>> >>> Le Wednesday 05 January 2022 à 11:57:49AM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard a écrit : >>>> Hi Bastien! >>>> >>>> Thanks for your idea. >>>> >>>> I am a little behind on HTML 5 specs, because I mostly work in Markdown. >>>> >>>> The following worked: >>>> >>>> ~~~ >>>> This is the first paragraph. After this sentence there is inserted a blank line before the next paragraph. >>>> >>>> \ >>>> >>>> Here starts the next paragraph. >>>> ~~~ >>>> >>>> I noticed though that this inserts a special character when I convert from Markdown to docx-files. It looks like the escaped linebreak does something unexpected. >>>> >>>> I also noticed that If I want to insert a heading I can't get blank lines before this element in docx-files as well. >>>> How can I troubleshot this? >>>> >>>> Best regards Thomas >>>> >>>>> Den 7. nov. 2021 kl. 11.40 skrev Bastien DUMONT : >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> This can be achieved by escaping the first line at the begin of the paragraph: >>>>> >>>>> ``` >>>>> This is a paragraph. After it, >>>>> a blank line will be inserted. >>>>> >>>>> \ >>>>> This is the following paragraph. >>>>> ``` >>>>> >>>>> However, if your inserting of a blank line follows some general criteria, there could be a better way to do this than manual insertion. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> >>>>> Bastien >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Le Sunday 07 November 2021 à 11:29:52AM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard a écrit : >>>>>> Hi! >>>>>> >>>>>> When I render documents I have written in Markdown (the variant Pandoc defaults to) I find that I in a few cases want to include some blank lines before a new paragraph. >>>>>> Is there a way to do this easily when writing in Markdown? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> >>>>>> Best regards Thomas >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/A1998CCA-188A-4553-BF5C-5CFD5D44AADD%40coolfortheblind.dk. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/YYetGzBODfdjyAcC%40localhost. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/3B3F5A70-0DF9-4D74-B8AC-0CDD03E46388%40coolfortheblind.dk. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/YdWZKXIbH6G7pBnQ%40localhost. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/4FF46680-CC8E-40B1-83B2-F9D6F7D219E4%40coolfortheblind.dk. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/YdYLI8gO7cfQ431K%40localhost. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. 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