Converting to Markdown while Retaining Empty Paragraphs

[little-help]

Hi,
I have a lot of text in a google document and need it as markdown. Downloading markdown from google strips empty paragraphs (used as scene breaks). Downloading e.g. as .odt preserves empty paragraphs, but using pandoc to convert this .odt into markdown again removes them.

Is there a way to retain the empty paragraphs in markdown? Or maybe to at least mark in some way where they would have been?

[badumont]

How would you represent empty paragraphs in Markdown?

[jgm]

Download as .docx, and use pandoc -f docx+empty_paragraphs -L convert-empty.lua, together with this Lua filter:

-- convert-empty.lua
function Para(el)
  if not el.content[1] then
    return pandoc.HorizontalRule()
  end
end

This will put a horizontal rule everywhere there was an empty paragraph in the original.