Forum OpenACS Development: enhanced text format and line breaks

I've got a local copy of forums that uses the enhanced text widget.  We've just noticed that it behaves just like HTML format with respect to line breaks - they are lost unless the user puts in tags to preserve them.

My questions:

a) is this the way the widget is supposed to work?
b) if not, is it a bug in the widget or in the way I'm using it?

This behavior seems wrong to me as I had thought this was supposed to be the WYSIWYG mode, but I could certainly be wrong about that.

Thanks for any insights.

I found the code you're referring to in template::util::richtext::get_property, but it's only executed if you set "what" to html_value.  All of the examples of this I see in lars-blogger and bug-tracker used contents, which is what I was using, and that just returns the raw value.

So I tried using html_value instead, with a message that looked like this:

line1
line2

line4

It looked right on the confirmation page, but the final message ended up like this:

line1

line2

line4

I am guessing this is because the html conversion got run on it twice.  Is this correct, that I should rework this so it's only run when going to the confirm page?  And why don't I see bug-tracker or lars-blogger doing it this way?  I feel like I must be missing something,