WordPress, Link Breaks and WYSIWYG

Hello,

I’m using markdown to write the posts for my wordpress blogs and I’ve run into a minor formatting issue. Markdown outputs the text in a format like this:

<P>blah blah blah</P>

<P>blah blah blah</P>

<P>blah blah blah</P>

The problem is that word press seems to recognize the carriage returns as additional link breaks and thus leaves a massive amount of space between the paragraphs. I’ve looked around in the options but I can’t seem to find anyway to turn off the automatic conversion of carriage returns to link breaks.

Is there anyway to do this ?

Thanks for your help,

-Grey