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D&D 5e, Compendium Content, Paragraph Breaks

I'm not sure if it's a known thing, as I'm not entirely sure the language to completely describe the bug or error. So it's a bit hard to search for. Spells and other similar things dragged into the default Roll20 D&D 5e sheet from the compendium, the paragraph spacing/breaks and any interpuncts kind of break, so the spellcards that you get are all clustered together in a very difficult to read fashion. The work around now is going through to every spell and manually fixing them, but it's still a bit of a pain and I wanted to know if it was just me that was experiencing this or not. Anyways, thanks for any responses.
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Andreas J.
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Sheet Author
Translator
Did you get any response to this? Sounds like a pretty annoying thing, but likely other haven't encountered it. What browser/operating system are you using, anddo you use any browser extensions that modifies how Roll20 looks?
Chrome 74.0.3729.108, Windows 10 v. 1809 build 17763.437 None that I know of, I have adblock but I have the sub to not have ads, so it shouldn't matter too much.
Below are images of what I mean. The left is how the spell looks in the compendium. The right is also the compendium but what the spell will look like once entered into the sheet as a drag and drop in spell. Notice that all formatting and paragraphing is completely removed, making the spell a sort of jumbled mess to read. Said formatting can be restored in the character sheet, but it's a pain to have to do that and somewhat defeats the point of the ease of dragging and dropping something into the sheet.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
How was the second screen shot taken? I don't recognize the formatting. That title text doesn't look familiar.
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The two screen shots were taken with just hitting the Print Screen button and cropping. For clarification, the first two images below are what the spell looks like in my browser in the compendium, and the third image is what it looks like when dragged into a character sheet, where it loses its paragraph formatting (and special characters like interpuncts, etc.).  Sorry if this is a confusing question! I really wish I knew how to word this better to be more clear. Thank you for your time with the responses!
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
I understand now. Hmm. I'm not sure why it does that, but it's a good question.
Hi Damien.  I've added the formatting issue on spell entries of compendium to the ongoing "master"  list  of 5E compendium issues.  Thanks for finding it.
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DarkDeer
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
Compendium Curator
Hi Damien - The content on Compendium pages and the content in the Spell card are actually from separate sources. All compendium attributes (what makes up spellcards/monster stats/anything under the hood) have any formatting removed so as to not conflict with sheets and other handling. The spellcard then adds in its own formatting, but has no way to know where to put paragraphs since all the code has been removed. I hope that helps explain a little better why this happens! As it affects a low number of spells (Curse you Bigby and your varied uses of hands!), it is not a high priority to redesign, but we do hear that it is harder to read.  Thank you!