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.pptx conversion doesn't add two spaces at the end of a line to preserve new lines
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Description
Converting my presentation
raw looks like this
<!-- Slide number: 1 -->
# Basic timeseries analysis in Pandas
Stelios Christodoulou
PyData London
June 2025
### Notes:
<!-- Slide number: 2 -->
which renders to
To render correctly you need two spaces at the end of the lines
This is possibly related to other pptx issues such as #1087
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Research direction
Reproduce the conversion with the linked .pptx presentation and compare the generated Markdown with the two supplied renderings. Trace the PPTX conversion path and review related issue #1087; done means line breaks are preserved in the output without requiring manual trailing spaces.
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- python
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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