Is there any way to keep some spacing?

  will add an empty row, if that’s whats you meant. That’s what I currently use.

So in your example:

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Here is some information

• detail 1
• detail 2  

   

Here is the next bit of information

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… will turn into:

Here is some information

• detail 1
• detail 2

 

Here is the next bit of information