According to the dartdoc [specification](https://github.com/dart-lang/dartdoc/blob/main/doc/dart_documentation_comment_specification.md#22-block-based-doc-comments-historic-not-recommended). > Any whitespace immediately following the asterisk is also stripped, if present. But it isn't so. In case ``` /** Text. * More text. */ ``` The expected output is ``` Text. More text. ``` Actual output: ``` Expected: 'Text.\n' 'More text.' Actual: 'Text.\n' ' More text.' ``` See https://github.com/dart-lang/dartdoc/blob/main/test/co19/block_based_doc_comments_test.dart, the test `test_removeWhitespaceAfterAsterisk()`.