linebreak displays as paragraph in docx

[PeterTrotter]

When docx documents are generated linebreaks are shown as a new paragraph (despite just being w:cr) when they should not be.

version: pandoc 1.11.1

command:

$ pandoc br-example.md -o test.docx

br-example.md:

Paragraph one line one  
Paragraph one line two

Paragraph two

I have taken snippets from the resultant document.xml for the actual/expected.

Actual:

<w:body>
    <w:p>
        <w:r>
            <w:t xml:space="preserve">Paragraph one line one</w:t>
        </w:r>
        <w:r>
            <w:cr />
        </w:r>
        <w:r>
            <w:t xml:space="preserve">Paragraph one line two</w:t>
        </w:r>
    </w:p>
    <w:p>
        <w:r>
            <w:t xml:space="preserve">Paragraph two</w:t>
        </w:r>
    </w:p>
</w:body>

Expected:

<w:body>
    <w:p>
        <w:r>
            <w:t xml:space="preserve">Paragraph one line one</w:t>
            <w:br/>
            <w:t xml:space="preserve">Paragraph one line two</w:t>
        </w:r>
    </w:p>
    <w:p>
        <w:r>
            <w:t xml:space="preserve">Paragraph two</w:t>
        </w:r>
    </w:p>
</w:body>

When rendered the actual result looks almost indistinguishable from a new paragraph and does not achieve the intended look of the linebreak which is achieved by the expected code.

I don't actually know the spec and the resultant code change shown here is based on the way LibreOffice implements linebreaks in it's docx output.

[PeterTrotter]

Well, I don't know which is closer to the spec but the desired result can also be achieved by changing the <w:cr/> directly to a <w:br/>:

<w:body>
    <w:p>
        <w:r>
            <w:t xml:space="preserve">Paragraph one line one</w:t>
        </w:r>
        <w:r>
            <w:br />
        </w:r>
        <w:r>
            <w:t xml:space="preserve">Paragraph one line two</w:t>
        </w:r>
    </w:p>
    <w:p>
        <w:r>
            <w:t xml:space="preserve">Paragraph two</w:t>
        </w:r>
    </w:p>
</w:body>