Single newlines are passed through, are interpreted as hard newlines by Confluence

[orospakr]

In markdown, you can use newlines to do manual word wrapping (handy with M-q in emacs) and it does not consider them a new paragraph. Ie., Markdown considers double-newlines to be paragraph delimiters. See http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#p.

However, Confluence interprets single newlines into <br>s and markdown2confluence passes them right through, meaning that your paragraphs display in Confluence peppered with <br>s.

Instead, markdown2confluence It should strip out single newlines.

[reitzig]

Note that __\n (double space followed by new-line) should result in <br>.

Proposed parsing:

1. Split by \s*\n\s*\n\s*; get back a list of paragraphs.
2. Split by \s\s+\n\s*; get back a list of explicitly broken lines.

This ignores all other syntactic features, in particular code blocks.