Currently \newpage must be a paragraph composed only by itself like

Paragraph

\newpage

Paragraph

This may add a blank page in word_document when the paragraph before breaking page reaches at the bottom of a page.

It would be nice if pagebreak can be done as a part of paragraph.
For example by

This paragraph ends with pagebreak.
\newpage

reprex

---
output:
  word_document:
    md_extensions: "+hard_line_breaks"
---

```{r, echo=FALSE, results='asis'}
cat(rep("1st page", 42), sep = "\n")
```

\newpage

Blank page exists before this line.

xfun::session_info('rmarkdown')

R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17763), RStudio 1.2.1335

Locale:
  LC_COLLATE=Japanese_Japan.932  LC_CTYPE=Japanese_Japan.932   
  LC_MONETARY=Japanese_Japan.932 LC_NUMERIC=C                  
  LC_TIME=Japanese_Japan.932    

Package version:
  base64enc_0.1.3 digest_0.6.23   evaluate_0.14   glue_1.3.1     
  graphics_3.6.1  grDevices_3.6.1 highr_0.8       htmltools_0.4.0
  jsonlite_1.6    knitr_1.26      magrittr_1.5    markdown_1.1   
  methods_3.6.1   mime_0.8        Rcpp_1.0.3      rlang_0.4.2    
  rmarkdown_2.0.5 stats_3.6.1     stringi_1.4.3   stringr_1.4.0  
  tinytex_0.18    tools_3.6.1     utils_3.6.1     xfun_0.11      
  yaml_2.2.0     

Pandoc version: 2.7.3
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