diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/processor.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/processor.py
index 4cff648fa5..0880eca4ca 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/processor.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/txt/processor.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from calibre.ebooks.metadata.opf2 import OPFCreator
from calibre.ebooks.conversion.preprocess import DocAnalysis
from calibre.utils.cleantext import clean_ascii_chars
-HTML_TEMPLATE = u'%s\n%s\n'
+HTML_TEMPLATE = u'%s \n%s\n'
def clean_txt(txt):
'''
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def clean_txt(txt):
# Strip whitespace from the end of the line. Also replace
# all line breaks with \n.
txt = '\n'.join([line.rstrip() for line in txt.splitlines()])
-
+
# Replace whitespace at the beginning of the line with
txt = re.sub('(?m)(?<=^)([ ]{2,}|\t+)(?=.)', ' ' * 4, txt)
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def convert_basic(txt, title='', epub_split_size_kb=0):
'''
Converts plain text to html by putting all paragraphs in
tags. It condense and retains blank lines when necessary.
-
+
Requires paragraphs to be in single line format.
'''
txt = clean_txt(txt)
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ def detect_paragraph_type(txt):
def detect_formatting_type(txt):
'''
Tries to determine the formatting of the document.
-
+
markdown: Markdown formatting is used.
textile: Textile formatting is used.
heuristic: When none of the above formatting types are