From 1046994c0c7e0624b05c1e5b56957a91bcd32b8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: atusy <30277794+atusy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 07:51:42 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] support empty cell with as_paragraph_md (solves #67)

---
 R/as-paragraph-md.R | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/R/as-paragraph-md.R b/R/as-paragraph-md.R
index 1a9f6cc..20b9dcb 100644
--- a/R/as-paragraph-md.R
+++ b/R/as-paragraph-md.R
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ organize <- function(md_df,
 
 construct_chunk <- function(x, auto_color_link = "blue") {
   flextable::chunk_dataframe(
-    txt = x$txt,
+    txt = x$txt %||% "", # x can be empty list when input is empty string
     italic = x$Emph %||% NA,
     bold = x$Strong %||% NA,
     url = x$Link %||% NA_character_,

From 5c5c9df4d28501e11921d7504b5ea22c5471017d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: atusy <30277794+atusy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 07:53:50 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] update NEWS

---
 NEWS.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 709ada0..cc73575 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# ftExtra 0.3.0.9999
+
+* `as_paragraph_md` supports empty string, `""`, as an input (#68).
+
 # ftExtra 0.3.0
 
 ## New features

From 26320d21db2cd5176ac4ba9ad11c520310794f20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: atusy <30277794+atusy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 07:54:19 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] bump to dev version 0.3.0.9999

---
 DESCRIPTION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8a0849d..d744d6a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: ftExtra
 Title: Extensions for 'Flextable'
-Version: 0.3.0
+Version: 0.3.0.9999
 Date: 2022-01-04
 Authors@R: 
   c(person(given = "Atsushi",

From 57206209eafa23aa46b75b2a7490926e6184ce35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: atusy <30277794+atusy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 07:59:33 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] add support for input formats without div

---
 R/as-paragraph-md.R | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/R/as-paragraph-md.R b/R/as-paragraph-md.R
index 20b9dcb..49bdbb3 100644
--- a/R/as-paragraph-md.R
+++ b/R/as-paragraph-md.R
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ as_paragraph_md <- function(x,
       organize(md_df, auto_color_link, .footnote_options)
     } else {
       lapply(x, function(x) {
+        if (x == "") return(construct_chunk(list()))
         y <- x %>%
           md2df(pandoc_args = pandoc_args, .from = .from, .check = TRUE) %>%
           solve_footnote(.footnote_options, auto_color_link) %>%