I agree. This is frustrating in many markup formats. A carriage return should turn into a br tag and two carriage returns should start a new paragraph. Simple,

I agree. This is frustrating in many markup formats. A carriage return should turn into a br tag and two carriage returns should start a new paragraph. Simple, intuitive, where's the problem?? IMO any situation where that behaviour is undesirable is an edge case and should require more effort to work around.