Preserve line breaks

src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Fixtures/PlainConsole.cs

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console.Tests
         public Color Background { get; set; }
 
         public StringWriter Writer { get; }
+        public string RawOutput => Writer.ToString();
         public string Output => Writer.ToString().TrimEnd('\n');
         public IReadOnlyList<string> Lines => Output.Split(new char[] { '\n' });
 

src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/Composition/TextTests.cs

@@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ namespace Spectre.Console.Tests.Unit
                 .ShouldBe("Hello World");
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void Should_Write_Line_Breaks()
+        {
+            // Given
+            var fixture = new PlainConsole(width: 5);
+            var text = Text.New("\n\n");
+
+            // When
+            fixture.Render(text);
+
+            // Then
+            fixture.RawOutput.ShouldBe("\n\n");
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void Should_Split_Unstyled_Text_To_New_Lines_If_Width_Exceeds_Console_Width()
         {

src/Spectre.Console/Composition/Text.cs

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         IEnumerable<Segment> IRenderable.Render(RenderContext context, int width)
         {
-            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_text))
+            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(_text))
             {
                 return Array.Empty<Segment>();
             }
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
                     }
                 }
 
-                if (!last)
+                if (!last || line.Count == 0)
                 {
                     result.Add(Segment.LineBreak());
                 }
@@ -214,7 +214,10 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
                 var index = segment.Text.IndexOf("\n", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
                 if (index == -1)
                 {
-                    result.Add(segment);
+                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(segment.Text))
+                    {
+                        result.Add(segment);
+                    }
                 }
                 else
                 {