<p>A blank line is a paragraph break so is not preserved in the rendered output as such - the reason it appears to be in the preview is that paragraphs there have a 20 pixel bottom margin.</p>
<p>In the actual user description rendering the designer has chosen not to have that margin, likely because use descriptions are intended to be small and compact.</p>

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