[Repo Assist] fix: improve Markdown.ToMd round-trip fidelity + add ToFsx/ToPynb tests (#1142)

* fix: improve Markdown.ToMd round-trip fidelity and add ToFsx/ToPynb tests

- HardLineBreak now serialises as '  \n' (two trailing spaces + newline)
  instead of bare '\n', preserving the hard break on re-parse
- HorizontalRule now emits exactly three characters matching the parsed
  character ('---', '***', or '___') rather than 23 hyphens
- Remove stray printfn debug output from the ToMd catch-all branch
- Add 9 new unit tests:
  * HardLineBreak and HorizontalRule round-trips in ToMd
  * Markdown.ToFsx (previously zero direct tests)
  * Markdown.ToPynb (previously zero direct tests)

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RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@
 * Bump `System.Memory` transitive-dependency pin from 4.5.5 to 4.6.3.0
 
 ### Fixed
+* Fix `Markdown.ToMd` serialising `HardLineBreak` as a bare newline instead of two trailing spaces + newline. The correct CommonMark representation `"  \n"` is now emitted, so hard line breaks survive a round-trip through `ToMd`.
+* Fix `Markdown.ToMd` serialising `HorizontalRule` as 23 hyphens regardless of the character used in the source. It now emits exactly three characters matching the parsed character (`---`, `***`, or `___`), giving faithful round-trips.
+* Remove stray `printfn` debug output emitted to stdout when `Markdown.ToMd` encountered an unrecognised paragraph type.
+
+### Added
+* Add tests for `Markdown.ToFsx` (direct serialisation to F# script format), which previously had no unit test coverage.
+* Add tests for `Markdown.ToPynb` (direct serialisation to Jupyter notebook format), which previously had no unit test coverage.
+* Add round-trip tests for `HardLineBreak` and `HorizontalRule` character preservation in `Markdown.ToMd`.
 * Fix `Markdown.ToMd` silently dropping `EmbedParagraphs` nodes: the serialiser now delegates to the node's `Render()` method and formats the resulting paragraphs, consistent with the HTML and LaTeX back-ends.
 * Fix `Markdown.ToMd` dropping link titles in `DirectLink` and `DirectImage` spans. Links with a title attribute (e.g. `[text](url "title")`) now round-trip correctly; without this fix the title was silently discarded on serialisation.
 * Fix `Markdown.ToMd` serialising inline code spans that contain backtick characters. Previously, `InlineCode` was always wrapped in single backticks, producing syntactically incorrect Markdown when the code body contained backticks. Now the serialiser selects the shortest backtick fence that does not collide with the body content (e.g. a double-backtick fence for bodies containing single backticks, triple for double, etc.), matching the CommonMark spec.

src/FSharp.Formatting.Markdown/MarkdownUtils.fs

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ module internal MarkdownUtils =
         | LatexDisplayMath(body, _) -> sprintf "$$%s$$" body
         | EmbedSpans(cmd, _) -> formatSpans ctx (cmd.Render())
         | Literal(str, _) -> str
-        | HardLineBreak(_) -> "\n"
+        | HardLineBreak(_) -> "  " + ctx.Newline
 
         | AnchorLink _ -> ""
         | DirectLink(body, link, title, _) ->
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ module internal MarkdownUtils =
               yield String.concat "" [ for span in spans -> formatSpan ctx span ]
               yield ""
 
-          | HorizontalRule(_) ->
-              yield "-----------------------"
+          | HorizontalRule(c, _) ->
+              yield String.replicate 3 (string c)
               yield ""
           | CodeBlock(code = code; fence = fence; language = language) ->
               match fence with
@@ -276,7 +276,6 @@ module internal MarkdownUtils =
           | InlineHtmlBlock(code, _, _) ->
               let lines = code.Replace("\r\n", "\n").Split('\n') |> Array.toList
               yield! lines
-          //yield ""
           | YamlFrontmatter _ -> ()
           | Span(body = body) -> yield formatSpans ctx body
           | QuotedBlock(paragraphs = paragraphs) ->

tests/FSharp.Markdown.Tests/Markdown.fs

@@ -1419,6 +1419,104 @@ let ``ToMd round-trip: indirect image with unresolved reference`` () =
     result |> should contain "![alt text][unknown-ref]"
 
 // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// ToMd: HardLineBreak and HorizontalRule round-trip
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``ToMd serialises HardLineBreak as two trailing spaces`` () =
+    // Two trailing spaces before a newline create a hard line break in CommonMark
+    let md = "Hello  \nWorld"
+    let doc = Markdown.Parse(md, newline = "\n")
+    let result = Markdown.ToMd(doc, newline = "\n")
+    // The hard line break must round-trip as "  \n" so a re-parse would produce HardLineBreak
+    result |> should contain "  \n"
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``ToMd preserves HorizontalRule hyphen character`` () =
+    let md = "---"
+    let result = toMd md
+    // Should be exactly three hyphens, not a longer sequence
+    result |> should contain "---"
+    result |> should not' (contain "----")
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``ToMd preserves HorizontalRule asterisk character`` () =
+    let md = "***"
+    let result = toMd md
+    result |> should contain "***"
+    result |> should not' (contain "****")
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``ToMd preserves HorizontalRule underscore character`` () =
+    let md = "___"
+    let result = toMd md
+    result |> should contain "___"
+    result |> should not' (contain "____")
+
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Markdown.ToFsx: direct tests (no Literate wrapper)
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``Markdown.ToFsx wraps prose in script comment block`` () =
+    let md = "# My Title\n\nSome prose paragraph."
+    let doc = Markdown.Parse(md, newline = "\n")
+    let result = Markdown.ToFsx(doc, newline = "\n")
+    // All non-code content should be wrapped in (** ... *)
+    result |> should contain "(**"
+    result |> should contain "*)"
+    result |> should contain "# My Title"
+    result |> should contain "Some prose paragraph."
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``Markdown.ToFsx emits code block as plain F# without wrapping`` () =
+    let md = "Before code.\n\n```fsharp\nlet x = 42\n```\n\nAfter code."
+    let doc = Markdown.Parse(md, newline = "\n")
+    let result = Markdown.ToFsx(doc, newline = "\n")
+    // Code content should appear as raw F#, not wrapped in comment blocks
+    result |> should contain "let x = 42"
+    result |> should contain "(**"
+    result |> should contain "Before code."
+    result |> should contain "After code."
+    // The code itself must not be wrapped in a comment block
+    result |> should not' (contain "(** let x = 42")
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``Markdown.ToFsx round-trips empty document`` () =
+    let doc = Markdown.Parse("", newline = "\n")
+    let result = Markdown.ToFsx(doc, newline = "\n")
+    // Empty document → empty script
+    result.Trim() |> shouldEqual ""
+
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Markdown.ToPynb: direct tests (no Literate wrapper)
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``Markdown.ToPynb produces valid JSON notebook`` () =
+    let md = "# Title\n\nSome text."
+    let doc = Markdown.Parse(md, newline = "\n")
+    let result = Markdown.ToPynb(doc, newline = "\n")
+    // Jupyter notebooks are JSON; basic structural checks
+    result |> should contain "\"nbformat\""
+    result |> should contain "\"cells\""
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``Markdown.ToPynb prose becomes a markdown cell`` () =
+    let md = "# Title\n\nSome prose."
+    let doc = Markdown.Parse(md, newline = "\n")
+    let result = Markdown.ToPynb(doc, newline = "\n")
+    result |> should contain "\"cell_type\": \"markdown\""
+    result |> should contain "# Title"
+
+[<Test>]
+let ``Markdown.ToPynb code block becomes a code cell`` () =
+    let md = "Some prose.\n\n```fsharp\nlet y = 99\n```\n\nMore prose."
+    let doc = Markdown.Parse(md, newline = "\n")
+    let result = Markdown.ToPynb(doc, newline = "\n")
+    result |> should contain "\"cell_type\": \"code\""
+    result |> should contain "let y = 99"
+
 // ToMd additional coverage: headings, nested structures, LaTeX display math, inline code
 // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------