Text following page excerpt is not a separate paragraph

Question

This has bugged me several times now: I frequently add a page excerpt macro, containing some lines or paragraphs of text, followed by another paragraph of text - outside the excerpt macro body. During edit mode, both elements appear as two separate paragraphs/blocks.

However, when (pre)viewing the content, the excerpt content and following paragraph are just concatenated as illustrated below (see how there is not even any space after the "." as highlighted in red):

Is this a defect? Is there a way to have the paragraph following the excerpt block be displayed as a separate paragraph?

M_S_ · Answer

No, I did follow you recommendation, the (blind, not latin) text below the additional

does display in its own paragraph. That part is ok. However, looking at the storage format, it bugs me that the "separator"

is needed to achieve the desired result, as the following text is already wrapped in

...

-- shouldn't this result in the text being displayed in its own paragraph, even without the preceding "separator"? Actually, when I manually change the excerpt's atlassian-macro-output-type to BLOCK (instead of INLINE) in the storage format, then it seems do display fine as well, even without the separator. However, this option does not seem to be available from the UI. Bottom line: your way does result in the correct display, however it seems more than what the storage format would suggest.

Shannon S · Answer

Hello M.S. To be clear, you used my recommendation, received the results in the above storage format, and the Latin text below the additional

does not appear in its own paragraph? Could you show me how it looks on your page when you used my approach? Secondly, can you show me what the source looks like when you originally inserted the macro? Could you let me know the steps you took for it to look like that? Regards, Shannon

M_S_ · Answer

While this approach appears to result in the correct rendering, I still suspect that there is an error below this. Looking at the storage format, your approach results in ...

Cum sociis natoque penatibus... So there is an additional

, while in reality, the following text is already wrapped in

and should therefore display as its own paragraph.