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Double breaks after every paragraph

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It should be possible by changing CSS style, to change p margin
http://lab.artlung.com/change-space-between-paragraphs/
Btw, isn't Markdown supported in the core of Vanilla? I use it w/o this addon enabled
$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'Markdown';
in your /conf/config.php filedisabling the markdown plugin just switched off all markdown syntax processing.
but it could just be a minor slipup like a package not in the install as in the recent missing empty folder in smarty.
As a test I have identical text in a first post in thread and in a comment post
viewing the source
<h4>Paragraphs</h4><br />This is a paragraph. It has two sentences.<br /><br />This is another paragraph. It also has two sentences.<br /><br />etc....
in the initial post and
<h4>Paragraphs</h4><br /><br /><p>This is a paragraph. It has two sentences.</p><br /><br /><p>This is another paragraph. It also has two sentences.</p><br /><br /><p>etc....
in the reply postits a pain but markdown and vanilla together should not produce double br and p tags and consequent double spaced lines round paragraphs.