Obsidian does not follow the commonmark spec for paragraphs

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

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Y

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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

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Additional information

Link to the relevent part of commonmark spec:

link to demo from commonmark showing that the behaviour indeed is as i said

arugh i forgot to remove the thing at the top

im stupid and have just been informed of the option in the settings under editor