Multiple newlines stripped from within MT import files

[IndigoJo]

When I imported entries from my old MT blog into a new Wordpress install, I expected my multiple newlines to be preserved. This is because MT uses them to form paragraphs; the Markdown or Text Control plugins can do the same in Wordpress, but either way, if you strip them out, you get a huge bundle of text which is difficult to read.

The problem appears to be in the wp-admin/import/mt.php file, which ignores blank lines regardless of context. If a newline were added in the event of a blank line when the context was body, comment, extended or excerpt, the newlines would be preserved. The attached patch fixes this.

Patch to insert newlines when relevant

punting pending patch

This ticket hasn't had any community activity. Need to see some people testing it etc. Punting because we're in beta.