//! 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. //! //! ## 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) //! //! [flow]: crate::content::flow //! [paragraph]: crate::construct::paragraph //! [heading-atx]: crate::construct::heading_atx //! //! use crate::construct::partial_whitespace::start as whitespace; use crate::tokenizer::{Code, State, StateFnResult, TokenType, Tokenizer}; /// Start of a blank line. /// /// Note: `␠` represents a space character. /// /// ```markdown /// |␠␠ /// | /// ``` pub fn start(tokenizer: &mut Tokenizer, code: Code) -> StateFnResult { tokenizer.attempt( |tokenizer, code| whitespace(tokenizer, code, TokenType::BlankLineWhitespace), |_ok| Box::new(after), )(tokenizer, code) } /// After zero or more spaces or tabs, before a line ending or EOF. /// /// Note: `␠` represents a space character. /// /// ```markdown /// |␠␠ /// | /// ``` fn after(_tokenizer: &mut Tokenizer, code: Code) -> StateFnResult { match code { Code::None | Code::CarriageReturnLineFeed | Code::Char('\n' | '\r') => { (State::Ok, Some(vec![code])) } _ => (State::Nok, None), } }