[Frenzie]

I only took a quick peek, but as @Galunid proposed perhaps the to plain text algorithm would behave more as expected like this (certainly a lot quicker than putting in an HTML widget):

diff --git a/frontend/util.lua b/frontend/util.lua
index 863ce849..6293e5c6 100644
--- a/frontend/util.lua
+++ b/frontend/util.lua
@@ -1002,8 +1002,8 @@ This may fail on complex HTML (with styles, scripts, comments), but should be fi
 function util.htmlToPlainText(text)
     -- Replace <br> and <p> with \n
     text = text:gsub("%s*<%s*br%s*/?>%s*", "\n") -- <br> and <br/>
-    text = text:gsub("%s*<%s*p%s*>%s*", "\n") -- <p>
-    text = text:gsub("%s*</%s*p%s*>%s*", "\n") -- </p>
+    text = text:gsub("%s*<%s*p%s*>%s*", "\n\n") -- <p>
+    text = text:gsub("%s*</%s*p%s*>%s*", "\n\n") -- </p>
     text = text:gsub("%s*<%s*p%s*/>%s*", "\n") -- standalone <p/>
     -- Remove all HTML tags
     text = text:gsub("<[^>]*>", "")