Literal empty line in pandoc manpage markdown

Question

This markdown manpage:

%frobnicator(3)

# NAME
**frobnicator** — frobnicates the frobs

# OPTIONS
  **-a** *a*: the letter a \
  **-b** *b*: the letter b \
  \
  **-c** *c*: the letter c \

renders (pandoc -s --to=man frobnicator.md |PAGER=cat man -l -) to:

frobnicator(3)                                                  frobnicator(3)



NAME
       frobnicator — frobnicates the frobs

OPTIONS
       -a a: the letter a
       -b b: the letter b
       -c c: the letter c
                                                                frobnicator(3)

How do I put an empty line between -b and -c?

Ben Quigley · Answer 1 · 2017-07-30T17:33:46.410

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What about:

%frobnicator(3)

# NAME
**frobnicator** — frobnicates the frobs

# OPTIONS

  **-a** *a*: the letter a \
  **-b** *b*: the letter b

  **-c** *c*: the letter c \

Edit: my only other idea:

%frobnicator(3)

# NAME
**frobnicator** — frobnicates the frobs

# OPTIONS

|  **-a** *a*: the letter a \
|  **-b** *b*: the letter b \
|
|  **-c** *c*: the letter c \

edited Jul 30 '17 at 17:33

answered Jul 30 '17 at 17:14

Ben Quigley

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Thanks for trying, but that's even worse. (It joins the b line and the c line) – Petr Skocik Jul 30 '17 at 17:19
See my edit? That would work with the outputs I'm familiar with (haven't used pandoc for man pages before). – Ben Quigley Jul 30 '17 at 17:34
That's giving me the same output as the original code. – Petr Skocik Jul 30 '17 at 17:36

Literal empty line in pandoc manpage markdown

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