Steps to reproduce
Enter the following text into a markdown document and open it in obsidian
this should
render as
one paragraph
even though,
it has line
breaks in the
source
this should render as
two paragraphs
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Y
Please, follow the Troubleshooting Guide before answering Yes.
Expected result
the rendered result should appear as follows:
this should render as one paragraph even though, it has line breaks in the source
this should render as
two paragraphs
Actual result
this should
render as
one paragraph
even though,
it has line
breaks in the
source
this should render as
two paragraphs
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.7
Installer version: 1.10.3
Operating system: #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 13 16:20:49 UTC 2026 6.12.77
Login status: not logged in
Language: en-GB
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: dark
Community theme: Obsidian gruvbox 0.2.1
Snippets enabled: 6
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 26
Plugins enabled: 24
1: Dataview v0.5.68
2: Minimal Theme Settings v8.2.1
3: Tasks v7.23.1
4: Templater v2.18.1
5: Tabout v1.0.1
6: Shell commands v0.23.0
7: Webpage HTML Export v1.9.2
8: Status Bar Organizer v2.1.5
9: BRAT v2.0.4
10: Typst Mate v2.3.2
11: Tag Wrangler v0.6.4
12: Calendar v1.5.10
13: Style Settings v1.0.9
14: Day Planner v0.28.0
15: Shiki Highlighter v0.7.3
16: Charts v3.9.0
17: Callout Suggestions v1.0.2
18: Callout Manager v1.1.0
19: Hide Sidebars on Window Resize v1.1.1
20: Omnisearch v1.28.2
21: Floating Headings v1.1.2
22: Heading Shifter v1.10.2
23: Datacore v0.1.29
24: No more flickering inline math v0.3.6
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.
Additional information
Link to the relevent part of commonmark spec:
link to demo from commonmark showing that the behaviour indeed is as i said