Paragraphs don't require any special markup in AsciiDoc. A paragraph is just one or more lines of consecutive text. To begin a new paragraph, separate it by at least one blank line. >>> Document { docMeta = Meta { docTitle = [] , docTitleAttributes = Nothing , docAuthors = [] , docRevision = Nothing , docAttributes = fromList [ ( "sectids" , "" ) ] } , docBlocks = [ Block mempty Nothing (Paragraph [ Inline mempty (Str "Paragraphs don\8217t require any special markup in AsciiDoc.\nA paragraph is just one or more lines of consecutive text.") ]) , Block mempty Nothing (Paragraph [ Inline mempty (Str "To begin a new paragraph, separate it by at least one blank line.") ]) ] }