There is no way to force newlines between items. You can allow newlines above something with allow_blank_line_before, but in some cases it could be useful to not only allow it but enforce it?
The allow_blank_line_before processing happens before formatting, on the input. If blank lines are subsequently inserted as part of formatting, then they will be squashed by the post-processor.
It would make sense for the post-processor to be sensitive to allow_blank_line_before nodes, so Topiary has a way of inserting horizontal whitespace between nodes.
Originally posted by @lavigneer in https://github.com/tweag/topiary/pull/699
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allow_blank_line_beforeprocessing happens before formatting, on the input. If blank lines are subsequently inserted as part of formatting, then they will be squashed by the post-processor.It would make sense for the post-processor to be sensitive to
allow_blank_line_beforenodes, so Topiary has a way of inserting horizontal whitespace between nodes.