Hi there! I'm using WorldAnvil (the Plutarch editor) in Firefox on Linux. My default "quick notes" app is Mousepad, a simple app like Notepad. When I copy data from it, it only provides the raw text in text/plain format. When I paste this into Plutarch, it trims all of the newlines regardless of how many I put and just replaces them with spaces. So this:

(Mousepad)

Line 1

Line 2

Line 3

Becomes when pasted into Plutarch:

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3


I've confirmed that the original copied values only have
, no \r if that matters.

This makes it hard to add notes from out-of-game into WorldAnvil directly.

As a workaround, what I do now is copy the text and put it into an editor that can convert to text/html, or put both text/plain and text/html into the clipboard. Then Plutarch grabs the data from the HTML type and formats it properly, preserving newlines, because the
 characters are all replaced with <br> which it can understand.

So this clipboard:

----- text/plain -----
"- Line 1

- Line 2

"


Becomes this:

----- text/html -----
"- Line 1<br><br>- Line 2<br><br>"
----- text/plain -----
"- Line 1

- Line 2

"


That being said, I'd like the ability to paste directly without having to middle-man the text like this.

Thanks guys!

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open an editor that only puts text/plain on the clipboard. Add as many newlines as you want.
2. Paste into an article using the Plutarch editor.
3. Observe all the newlines get squished into a single space character, and the resulting text is all put onto one line.

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