diff --git a/common/forms.py b/common/forms.py
index 5733d9ebafc7da476fb38aacac274a0f93afc632..0d6f4fc3059e475a36373824c6e9aff87ccf2e58 100644
--- a/common/forms.py
+++ b/common/forms.py
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ class MarkupTextForm(forms.Form):
                 'language': language,
                 'errors': warnStream.getvalue()
             }
+        from django.template.defaultfilters import linebreaksbr
         return {
             'language': language,
-            'processed_markup': text
+            'processed_markup': linebreaksbr(text)
             }