//! Blank lines are a construct that occurs in the [flow][] content type. //! //! They’re formed with the following BNF: //! //! ```bnf //! blank_line ::= *(' ' '\t') //! ``` //! //! Blank lines are sometimes needed, such as to differentiate a [paragraph][] //! from another paragraph. //! In several cases, blank lines are not needed between flow constructs, //! such as between two [heading (atx)][heading-atx]s. //! Sometimes, whether blank lines are present, changes the behavior of how //! HTML is rendered, such as whether blank lines are present between list //! items in a [list][]. //! More than one blank line is never needed in `CommonMark`. //! //! Because blank lines can be empty (line endings are not considered part of //! it), and events cannot be empty, blank lines are not present as a token. //! //! ## Tokens //! //! * [`SpaceOrTab`][crate::token::Token::SpaceOrTab] //! //! ## References //! //! * [`blank-line.js` in `micromark`](https://github.com/micromark/micromark/blob/main/packages/micromark-core-commonmark/dev/lib/blank-line.js) //! * [*§ 4.9 Blank lines* in `CommonMark`](https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#blank-lines) //! //! [heading-atx]: crate::construct::heading_atx //! [list]: crate::construct::list //! [paragraph]: crate::construct::paragraph //! [flow]: crate::content::flow use crate::construct::partial_space_or_tab::space_or_tab; use crate::tokenizer::{State, StateName, Tokenizer}; /// Start of a blank line. /// /// > 👉 **Note**: `␠` represents a space character. /// /// ```markdown /// > | ␠␠␊ /// ^ /// > | ␊ /// ^ /// ``` pub fn start(tokenizer: &mut Tokenizer) -> State { let name = space_or_tab(tokenizer); tokenizer.attempt( name, State::Next(StateName::BlankLineAfter), State::Next(StateName::BlankLineAfter), ) } /// After zero or more spaces or tabs, before a line ending or EOF. /// /// ```markdown /// > | ␠␠␊ /// ^ /// > | ␊ /// ^ /// ``` pub fn after(tokenizer: &mut Tokenizer) -> State { match tokenizer.current { None | Some(b'\n') => State::Ok, _ => State::Nok, } }