Page content separates its major sections with leading <br><br>, which
the old site renders as a blank line before each section heading. Those
breaks were being lost, leaving every section butted up against the
previous one.
Two causes. The content contains malformed `</br>` closing tags, which
browsers treat as a line break but an HTML parser discards, so they
never survived the HTML->Markdown conversion; they're now rewritten to
<br />. And Markdown drops a hard break at the start of a paragraph, so
turndown now emits literal <br /> tags instead of the trailing-two-space
form -- inline, with no trailing newline, since a lone tag on its own
line starts a raw HTML block (CommonMark type 7) and would stop the rest
of the paragraph being parsed as Markdown at all.
Verified against the live old site: paragraph count, <br> count, bold
heading count and per-paragraph break placement now all match exactly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Static brochure/marketing site: 55 pages, 5 posts, 82 attachments, and
the 7-item nav, exported from the wordpress_vicidial DB via
scripts/export-wp.mjs (re-runnable). Layout/styles ported from the
small-business WP theme; homepage slideshow rebuilt as a Splide client
island pulling the latest 5 posts at build time, replacing the old
BJQS jQuery plugin.
jamespandClaude Opus 5