Some text imported to a wiki page is double spaced, some single

[Kevin Raeder]

I used the same method to import the text from an ascii file: <ctl>-c and <ctl>-v.  Sometimes it double-spaced the lines.  Other times it single spaced them.  I "inspected" the page and I see that there are <p>...</p> around each double spaced line, so the editor thought that each line is a paragraph.  The single spaced lines are all within a single <p>...</p> and have <br> between them. There are no blank characters at the ends of the lines, and no tabs in the lines.

How can I either convert the double spaced text to single, or import it in a way that makes it single spaced?

I tried <ctl>+<shift>-v and <cmd>+<shift>-v, but neither helped.  Removing the blanks at the beginnings of the lines doesn't help.

More abstractly; why does the editor enable me to control horizontal spacing several ways, but no way to control vertical spacing (other than empty lines)?

[Kevin Raeder]

I use vim in a Mac XQuartz *nix environment.  My understanding is that it's just ascii text with newline (\n) at the end of each line.  There are no carriage returns (\r).

I've attached a screenshot of the original text with spaces colored red and tabs with a green outline (there are none).  The lines after "Instructions" were added first.  Then Instructions, with header formatting added, then the lines before Instructions.  I've since noticed that when I first edit an attlassian page, the imported text keeps its single spacing.  But if I apply some kind of formatting to some of the text, then ascii text I enter subsequently gets double spaced.  So the formatting I add seems to change the mode of text entry.

[Brant Schroeder]

@Kevin Raeder What application are you using to create your ascii text in.  That is the place that you should be checking the formatting in.

[Kevin Raeder]

I use vim in a Mac XQuartz *nix environment.  My understanding is that it's just ascii text with newline (\n) at the end of each line.  There are no carriage returns (\r).

I've attached a screenshot of the original text with spaces colored red and tabs with a green outline (there are none).  The lines after "Instructions" were added first.  Then Instructions, with header formatting added, then the lines before Instructions.  I've since noticed that when I first edit an attlassian page, the imported text keeps its single spacing.  But if I apply some kind of formatting to some of the text, then ascii text I enter subsequently gets double spaced.  So the formatting I add seems to change the mode of text entry.