Improve readability: vertical space between paragraphs without blank lines

[neon_symeon]

Currently, Obsidian automatically adds vertical spacing before and after headings (#, ##, ###, etc.), which makes text sections visually separated without needing to insert extra blank lines manually.

I would love to see a similar behavior applied to paragraphs created by a hard return (pressing Enter once).

Right now, if I want to visually separate paragraphs, I must insert empty lines between them. This feels a bit redundant and clutters the Markdown source unnecessarily.

Proposed behavior:

• When pressing Enter to start a new paragraph, Obsidian would automatically render a slightly increased vertical space (e.g. half the line height) between paragraphs.
• This would make paragraphs visually distinct without requiring blank lines in the source text.
• It would work similarly to the spacing already applied between headings and normal text.

If not enabled by default, this could be added as a toggle in appearance (or editor settings).

Note: The existing Strict line breaks option does not solve this, because it forces all single Enter presses to be treated as line breaks (<br>), which visually merges previously separated lines into one continuous block instead of treating them as paragraphs. While it’s technically possible to style <br> elements using custom CSS, doing so requires complex selectors and exception rules (to avoid breaking lists, tables, and headings), which is not user-friendly and far from an intuitive solution.

[CawlinTeffid]

The blank lines in the source text aren’t just for visual separation, they’re how paragraphs are defined in Markdown (like how you define a heading by putting # in front of it). In Markdown, a line of text not separated from other lines of text by blank lines isn’t a paragraph.

Also, the request sacrifices readability of the source text and compatibility with most Markdown apps.

But I know at least one Markdown app that offers the requested behavior as an option; it’s not terribly hard to convert the requested style to proper Markdown, and Obsidian already ignores Markdown’s line break definition by default, so there may be hope for the request.