diff --git a/lib/tcmd/TokenIdentifiers.tsx b/lib/tcmd/TokenIdentifiers.tsx
index eb469aa..0b65dd6 100644
--- a/lib/tcmd/TokenIdentifiers.tsx
+++ b/lib/tcmd/TokenIdentifiers.tsx
@@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ export const buildOnlyDefaultElements = () => {
   // paragraph
   registerIdentifier(
     "p",
+    // /(?<=\n\n|^)([\s\S]*?)(?=\n\n|$)/g,
     /(?<=\n\n)([\s\S]*?)(?=\n\n)/g,
     (s) => {
       return {
diff --git a/lib/tcmd/index.ts b/lib/tcmd/index.ts
index f6151a6..a966d5b 100644
--- a/lib/tcmd/index.ts
+++ b/lib/tcmd/index.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ export const createElements = (body: string): Token[] => {
 const tokenize = (body: string) => {
   const tokenizedBody: TokenMarker[] = [];
 
-  body = body.replaceAll(/[ \t]+\n/g, "\n").replaceAll(/\n{3,}/g, "\n\n");
+  body = body
+    .trim()
+    .replaceAll(/[ \t]+\n/g, "\n")
+    .replaceAll(/\n{3,}/g, "\n\n");
 
   const addToken = (thing: TokenMarker) => {
     tokenizedBody.push(thing);
@@ -23,6 +26,7 @@ const tokenize = (body: string) => {
     const rx = new RegExp(token.rx);
     let match;
     while ((match = rx.exec(body)) !== null) {
+      if (type === "p") debugger;
       const start = match.index;
       const end = rx.lastIndex;
 
@@ -269,7 +273,10 @@ export function extractFrontMatter(body: string): [FrontMatter, string] {
   const rx = /^---([\s\S]*?)---/;
   const [_, frontmatterString] = body.match(rx) || ["", ""];
 
-  body = body.replace(rx, "");
+  console.log(body.replace(rx, ""));
+
+  body = body.replace(rx, "").trim();
+  console.log(body);
 
   const frontMatter: FrontMatter = {};