diff --git a/app/models/textile_article.rb b/app/models/textile_article.rb
index cf793ad..f6773c5 100644
--- a/app/models/textile_article.rb
+++ b/app/models/textile_article.rb
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ class TextileArticle < TextArticle
 
   def convert_to_html(textile)
     @@sanitizer ||= HTML::WhiteListSanitizer.new
-    @@sanitizer.sanitize(RedCloth.new(textile|| '').to_html)
+    converter = RedCloth.new(textile|| '')
+    converter.hard_breaks = false
+    @@sanitizer.sanitize(converter.to_html)
   end
 
 end
diff --git a/test/unit/textile_article_test.rb b/test/unit/textile_article_test.rb
index e6758a2..e734dcf 100644
--- a/test/unit/textile_article_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/textile_article_test.rb
@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ class TextileArticleTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_not_equal '<script>alert(1)</script>', build_article(nil, :abstract => '<script>alert(1)</script>').lead
   end
 
+  should 'not add hard breaks for single line breaks' do
+    assert_equal "<p>one\nparagraph</p>", build_article("one\nparagraph").to_html
+  end
+
   protected
 
   def build_article(input = nil, options = {})
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