Hard Line Breaks

Adjacent lines of regular text in AsciiDoc are combined into a single paragraph when converted. That means you can wrap paragraph text in the source document, either at a specific column or by putting each sentence or phrase on its own line. The line breaks separating adjacent lines won’t appear in the output. Instead, the line break will be converted to a single space. (In fact, all repeating space characters are reduced to a single space, just like in HTML.)

If you want line breaks in a paragraph to be preserved, there are several techniques you can use. For any single line, you can terminate it with a space followed by a plus sign (i.e., {plus}). This syntax signals to the processor to end the line in the output with a hard line break. To add this behavior to every line in the paragraph, set the hardbreaks option on the paragraph instead. Alternately, you can tell the processor to preserve all line breaks in every paragraph in the document by setting the hardbreaks-option document attribute, though this option should be used wisely.

To insert an empty line somewhere in a paragraph, you can use the hard line break syntax (i.e., {empty}{plus}) on a line by itself. This allows you to insert space between lines in the output without introducing separate paragraphs.