How to format ac:task-list

[Schmidt_ Cory]

I am sending a page create request to Confluence rest api (v2) and have the following ac:task-list with a checkbox and a string value next to it and I am trying to align them properly but it ends up adding an entire line between the checkbox and the value on page creation (all new pages are created with v2 editor which I had set in the space settings). 

<ac:task-list>

    <ac:task>

        <ac:task-id>1</ac:task-id>

        <ac:task-status>incomplete</ac:task-status>

        <ac:task-body>

     <span class="placeholder-inline-tasks"><ac:link>

       <ri:user ri:account-id="1234" ri:local-id="5678" />

      </ac:link> signs off</span>

        </ac:task-body>

    </ac:task>

    <ac:task>

        <ac:task-id>2</ac:task-id>

        <ac:task-status>incomplete</ac:task-status>

        <ac:task-body>

     <span class="placeholder-inline-tasks"><ac:link>

       <ri:user ri:account-id="4321" ri:local-id="8765" />

      </ac:link> signs off</span>

        </ac:task-body>\n

    </ac:task>

</ac:task-list>

My question is how do I format it to look more like this

 

and less like this ... 

 

Is there some styling I can add without making the page creation reverting to v1 editor?