Re: Inserting blank lines into a document using Markdown

[Bastien DUMONT <bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>]

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 <bastien.dumont@posteo.net>:
> > 
> > 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 <bastien.dumont@posteo.net>:
> >>> 
> >>> 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 
> >>>> 
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