From 620c24ad66138ccc070b24676b5e0e51854524f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Richardson <atdr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:28:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Treat a blank \cventry description as empty (#312)

The description (#7) was tested with \ifx&#7&, so a description holding
only whitespace, such as the line break left when its content is
commented out, counted as non-empty and added an empty description
line. Test it with etoolbox's \ifblank in all body styles instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ay3NRtLtypuStJdysepuJU
---
 CHANGELOG           | 1 +
 moderncvbodyi.sty   | 2 +-
 moderncvbodyiii.sty | 2 +-
 moderncvbodyiv.sty  | 2 +-
 moderncvbodyv.sty   | 2 +-
 moderncvbodyvi.sty  | 2 +-
 6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 50ddd43..81d4bdb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ version next
 - Fix "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000)" warning in banking \subsection dotted
   rules by adding \hss glue as in \dotfill (#307)
 - Update "circle" option to allow for half-filled circles in skill matrix (#309)
+- Treat a \cventry description containing only whitespace as empty (#312)
 
 version 2.6.1 (24 Jun 2026)
 - Allow the customisation of the contemporary style (#297)
diff --git a/moderncvbodyi.sty b/moderncvbodyi.sty
index b1155d2..77c916c 100644
--- a/moderncvbodyi.sty
+++ b/moderncvbodyi.sty
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
     \ifthenelse{\equal{#5}{}}{}{, #5}%
     \ifthenelse{\equal{#6}{}}{}{, #6}%
     \strut%
-    \ifx&#7&%
+    \ifblank{#7}{\@tempswatrue}{\@tempswafalse}\if@tempswa%
     \else{\newline{}\begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}\small#7\end{minipage}}\fi}}
 
 \@initializebox{\cvitemwithcommentbox}
diff --git a/moderncvbodyiii.sty b/moderncvbodyiii.sty
index ab77f1d..6c0d523 100644
--- a/moderncvbodyiii.sty
+++ b/moderncvbodyiii.sty
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
       {{\bfseries #4} & {\bfseries #5}\\}%
     {\itshape #3\ifstrempty{#6}{}{, #6}} & {\itshape #2}\\%
   \end{tabular*}%
-  \ifx&#7&%
+  \ifblank{#7}{\@tempswatrue}{\@tempswafalse}\if@tempswa%
   \else{\\%
     \begin{minipage}{\maincolumnwidth}%
       \small#7%
diff --git a/moderncvbodyiv.sty b/moderncvbodyiv.sty
index 5049b47..4dd5ec7 100644
--- a/moderncvbodyiv.sty
+++ b/moderncvbodyiv.sty
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
       .\strut}%
     \usebox{\cventryyearbox}%
   \end{minipage}\strut%
-  \ifx&#7&%
+  \ifblank{#7}{\@tempswatrue}{\@tempswafalse}\if@tempswa%
     \else{%
       \newline{}%
       \strut%
diff --git a/moderncvbodyv.sty b/moderncvbodyv.sty
index 3481389..f7d0b23 100644
--- a/moderncvbodyv.sty
+++ b/moderncvbodyv.sty
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
       \ifthenelse{\equal{#6}{}}{}{, #6}%
       .\strut}%
     \usebox{\cventryyearbox}}%
-  \ifx&#7&%
+  \ifblank{#7}{\@tempswatrue}{\@tempswafalse}\if@tempswa%
   \else%
     \vspace*{-4pt}%
     \cvitem[#1]{}{\small#7}\fi}
diff --git a/moderncvbodyvi.sty b/moderncvbodyvi.sty
index 79b9d3f..37459f6 100644
--- a/moderncvbodyvi.sty
+++ b/moderncvbodyvi.sty
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
     \ifthenelse{\equal{#5}{}}{}{, #5}%
     \ifthenelse{\equal{#6}{}}{}{, #6}%
     \strut%
-    \ifx&#7&%
+    \ifblank{#7}{\@tempswatrue}{\@tempswafalse}\if@tempswa%
     \else{\newline{}\begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}\small#7\end{minipage}}\fi}}
 
 \@initializebox{\cvitemwithcommentbox}