diff --git a/app/lib/reverse_markdown/converters/custom_text.rb b/app/lib/reverse_markdown/converters/custom_text.rb
index c9b63b49a..28148e303 100644
--- a/app/lib/reverse_markdown/converters/custom_text.rb
+++ b/app/lib/reverse_markdown/converters/custom_text.rb
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ module ReverseMarkdown
       end
 
       def remove_inner_newlines(text)
-        text.tr("\n\t", "")
+        text.tr("\r\n\t", " ").squeeze(" ")
       end
 
       def preserve_keychars_within_backticks(text)
diff --git a/config/initializers/reverse_markdown.rb b/config/initializers/reverse_markdown.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fcbd408b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/reverse_markdown.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Dir.glob(Rails.root.join("app/lib/reverse_markdown/converters/*.rb")).sort.each do |filename|
+  require_dependency filename
+end
diff --git a/spec/lib/reverse_markdown/converters/custom_text_spec.rb b/spec/lib/reverse_markdown/converters/custom_text_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..34d31fe3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/lib/reverse_markdown/converters/custom_text_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+require "rails_helper"
+
+RSpec.describe ReverseMarkdown::Converters::CustomText, type: :lib do
+  def create_custom_text
+    ReverseMarkdown.config.github_flavored = true
+    described_class.new
+  end
+
+  describe "#convert" do
+    it "keeps some blankspace between lines in the same paragraph" do
+      node = Nokogiri::HTML("newlines\nbecome\nspaces")
+      result = create_custom_text.convert(node)
+      expect(result).to eq("newlines become spaces")
+    end
+  end
+end