[TYPO3] RTEs strip <p> tags

[Jason A. Lefkowitz]

Hey all,

I'm setting up a new site in Typo3 and I've run into an issue with 
formatting text inputted through a rich text editor (RTE).  The system 
strips all the <p> and </p> tags off of the text.  This means all the 
text runs together in one big block.

I don't think this is a specific issue to any one RTE because it happens 
for me in both HTMLArea and TinyRTE.  I did see that TinyRTE by default 
has <p> set as an invalid element, along with <script> -- but taking <p> 
off that list doesn't fix the problem.

More likely there is some TSConfig I need to provide to tell Typo3 that 
<p> tags are valid and not to throw them out.  BUt I can't find any 
guidance on what that would be.

Anyone else experience this, and if so, how did you fix it?

Thanks!

-- Jason Lefkowitz