I think this is fixed in TaskPaper 3.8.2 Preview:
The indention is that I don’t want empty lines to effect outline structure in saved documents, because visually it’s impossible to see an empty lines indentation level (when viewed outside of TaskPaper). So when TaskPaper loads a file it corrects for this… any empty line that would be (by indentation level) the parent of a non-empty line is indented so that it doesn’t become a parent.
Previously I was doing this by:
- Gather range of empty lines.
- Set indent of all those lines to indent of next non-empty line.
Now I instead only change the indentation level of those empty lines if they are indented less then indent level of next non-empty line.
I’m not sure how clear that all was, but please try out the latest preview release. I think the fixed your use case.