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Empty lines and whitespace are not preserved
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Description
It appears that either `pulldown-cmark` or `pulldown-cmark-to-cmark` itself silently shrinks any number of consecutive empty lines into a single empty line, and also strips trailing whitespace. For example, for this file `test.md`
```markdown
a
b
```
When I run `cargo run --example stupicat test.md` I get
```
a
b
```
I see that in [Options](https://docs.rs/pulldown-cmark-to-cmark/20.0.0/pulldown_cmark_to_cmark/struct.Options.html) there are a number of tweaks to select the number of empty lines after a bunch of elements, but there is no option to preserve empty lines exactly as it was in the source document. (More generally I sought to preserve trailing whitespace after the end of each line as well: after the "a" above there are some spaces, but they are stripped in the output)
How easy would it be to workaround this? I mean, is this a limitation of `pulldown-cmark` itself (like, it throws away this information and there is no way to recover it), or just a missing feature in `pulldown-cmark-to-cmark`?
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