Is there anyway to completely disable the whitespace/line breaks in Harlowe?

So I am working with Harlowe and it seems every time there is a line break in the code it adds an empty line, including below text. I really don't want this effect. I am aware you can manually get rid of the space using these { } and other escapes, but it is a pain to add those to every passage, and changes the color of my code.

Can you disable this attribute entirely in your CSS?
This way I can manually add linebreaks with <br>, more like normal html.