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Make list loose for blank line after HTML block or indented code - #463

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A blank line between two blocks of a list item should make the list loose, but ListItemParser only counted the blank line if the active block was a paragraph or a list item. So these rendered as tight lists (no <p> around bar):

- <!-- comment -->

  bar
-     foo

  bar
- foo
  -

  bar

The other way around, a blank line between two blocks of a nested item also made the outer list loose if the outer item got another block later:

- a
  - b

    c
  # d

Here the outer list should stay tight (<li>a).

The fix checks whether the line before a new block in the item was blank instead of looking at the active block. That matches commonmark.js and cmark, which check for a gap between consecutive children (endsWithBlankLine), and blank lines inside a code block that continues afterwards still don't count.

Tests added in ListTightLooseTest: the four cases above fail without the change, and tightListWithIndentedCodeBlock guards the blank-line-inside-code case. Expected output is what cmark 0.31.2 and commonmark.js 0.31.2 produce. mvn test (all modules) and mvn spotless:check pass.

A blank line between two blocks of a list item makes the list loose. The
blank line was only taken into account if it came after a paragraph or
nested list item, so it was missed after an HTML block, an indented code
block or a setext heading. And a blank line between two blocks of a
nested item also made the outer list loose if the outer item got another
block later.

Instead, check whether the line before a new block in the item was blank,
like commonmark.js and cmark do.
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Great stuff, thank you

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