How can I define the spacing following a paragraph in prawn pdf?

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I'm rendering texts in a prawn pdf report and would like to define the exact spacing after a paragraph. I found :leading, which helps to define the line height, but nothing to define the spacing after a new paragraph (within the same cell or bounding box).

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So far I have not found out how to define the spacing as such, but I still think I found the problem why the space was too large.

I add the statement 

puts content.dump

to my class to print the content on the console.

In the cases where I had a paragraph in the content, the paragraph was replaced by \n\n. Example:

<p>Text</p><p>Text</p>

is changed to

"Text\n\nText\n\n"

As I anyway use an html sanitizer method to remove undesired html tags, I could extend the method with the following:

res = content.gsub(/\n{2,2}/, "\n")
res = res.gsub(/\n{3,}/, "\n\n")

This solved the problem for me.