Paragraphs not showing

I paste my articles from word into a text area within my form and upload. My problem is that I am losing my paragraphs and the article merges into a single block.
If I use this it inserts <br /> where paragraphs end.
$articletext = nl2br($articletext);
I then tried to use this in conjuction with

$articletext = str_replace("\n","<br/>",$articletext);

I sort of end up with two <br></br> clustered together. My question is how can I get the paragraph spacing I need?

Hi ugly,

I've no idea - but there are a couple of other threads about the same question in the forums here. You may find something useful there.

Bob

Thanks Bob will have a scout around. In the process of pasting from word to the chronotext area how does the para get interpreted by the chrono code?

Hi ugly,

It's pulled out of the $_POST array with

$post = JRequest::get( "post" , JREQUEST_ALLOWRAW );

and then saved to the database using the standard Joomla db save code.

So ChronoForms does next to nothing.

Bob