tighten-list-continuations

Collapse unwanted blank lines inside a list item whose children are continuation paragraphs

Collapse the blank line between two adjacent paragraph children of a list item when heuristics indicate the second paragraph is a continuation of the first sentence — the shape AI authors sometimes emit when wrapping long bullet items.

Modes

Value	Default	Behavior
`"off"`		Never collapse. Output is byte-identical to the input for this rule.
`"heuristic"`	✓	Collapse only when (a) the item’s children are paragraphs only, (b) they are separated by exactly one blank line at continuation indent, and (c) the second paragraph starts with a continuation signal (lowercase letter, backtick, `(`, `[`, `"`, `'`, `,`, en-dash, em-dash).
`"aggressive"`		Drop trigger (c); collapse any paragraphs-only list item whose paragraphs are separated by exactly one blank line.

Config

{
  "tighten-list-continuations": "heuristic"
}

This key sits at the top level of the config — not nested under an object. See the Options overview for the list-normalize section.

Example

Before:

- No `candle`, `ort` / ONNX Runtime, `llama.cpp` / `llama-cpp-2`, `tch` / libtorch, or

  `rust-bert` dependency in `tauri-app/Cargo.toml` or `tauri-app/core/Cargo.toml`.
- No `gguf` / `.onnx` / `.safetensors` assets in the repo.

After ("heuristic" — default):

- No `candle`, `ort` / ONNX Runtime, `llama.cpp` / `llama-cpp-2`, `tch` / libtorch, or
  `rust-bert` dependency in `tauri-app/Cargo.toml` or `tauri-app/core/Cargo.toml`.
- No `gguf` / `.onnx` / `.safetensors` assets in the repo.

The second paragraph starts with ` (inline code), which is a heuristic continuation signal — the blank gap is collapsed.

Capital-initial continuation is left alone

Before:

- first item that intros a follow-up topic.

  Also, this is a new sentence but starts with a capital word.

Output in "heuristic" mode is byte-identical — the capital start suggests a deliberate new topic, not a continuation.

In "aggressive" mode the blank gap collapses regardless.

Notes

The rule runs before wrap-markdown in the formatter pipeline, and after the three recover-escaped-* rules. See rule ordering.
The rule is idempotent — running the formatter twice on the tightened output produces no further change.
Sublists and fenced code children disqualify an item from collapsing in both modes.