Corrected cleanupMarkdown function

			#	Clean up redundant spaces and normalize blank lines

			#

			def cleanupMarkdown(lines: list[str]) -> list[str]:

				"""Remove trailing spaces and normalize blank lines.

				Figure captions should have exactly one blank line before and after."""

				# First pass: remove trailing spaces

				lines = [line.rstrip() for line in lines]

				cleaned_lines = []

				in_code_block = False

				consecutive_empty = 0

				for line in lines:

					stripped = line.strip()

					# Check for code block markers

					if stripped.startswith('```'):

						# Check for single-line code block (e.g. ```code```)

						if len(stripped) > 3 and stripped.endswith('```'):

							cleaned_lines.append(line)

							consecutive_empty = 0

							continue

				# Second pass: collapse multiple consecutive blank lines and handle figure captions

				result: list[str] = []

				blank_count = 0

						# Toggle code block state

						in_code_block = not in_code_block

						cleaned_lines.append(line)

						consecutive_empty = 0

						continue

				for i, line in enumerate(lines):

					isBlank = (len(line) == 0)

					isFigureCaption = line.startswith('**Figure') and line.endswith('**')

					# Check previous and next lines for context

					prevLine = result[-1] if len(result) > 0 else ''

					prevIsBlank = (len(prevLine) == 0)

					prevIsFigureCaption = (prevLine.startswith('**Figure') and prevLine.endswith('**'))

					nextLine = lines[i + 1] if i + 1 < len(lines) else ''

					nextIsBlank = (len(nextLine) == 0)

					nextIsFigureCaption = (nextLine.startswith('**Figure') and nextLine.endswith('**'))

					if isBlank:

						# Handle blank lines

						if prevIsFigureCaption:

							# After figure caption: we already added one blank line, skip this one

					if in_code_block:

						cleaned_lines.append(line)

						continue

						elif nextIsFigureCaption:

							# Before figure caption: add exactly one blank line

							if not prevIsBlank:

								result.append('')

								blank_count = 1

						else:

							# Regular blank line: allow max 2 consecutive blank lines

							blank_count += 1

							if blank_count <= 2:

								result.append('')

							# Skip if more than 2 consecutive blank lines

					else:

						# Non-blank line

						blank_count = 0

						if isFigureCaption:

							# Figure caption: ensure exactly one blank line before and after

							if not prevIsBlank and len(result) > 0:

								result.append('')

							result.append(line)

							# Add blank line after if next line is not blank

							if not nextIsBlank:

								result.append('')

					# Normal text processing

					if not stripped:

						consecutive_empty += 1

						if consecutive_empty <= 1:

							cleaned_lines.append(line)

					else:

							# Regular line

							result.append(line)

						consecutive_empty = 0

						cleaned_lines.append(line)

				return result

				return cleaned_lines

			lines = cleanupMarkdown(lines)