diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 627e8b653..e13056de5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-12-21 Alex Roitman  <shura@alex.neuro.umn.edu>
+	* src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py (reformat_para): Correctly check for
+	empty paragraph.
+
 2004-12-19  Don Allingham  <dallingham@users.sourceforge.net>
 	* src/DbPrompter.py: Add display messages during load
 	* src/GrampsBSDDB.py: Add display messages during load
diff --git a/src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py b/src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py
index f4924e6b5..6f6b54200 100644
--- a/src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py
+++ b/src/docgen/AsciiDoc.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ _WIDTH_IN_CHARS = 72
 #
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
 def reformat_para(para='',left=0,right=72,just=LEFT,right_pad=0):
-    if not para:
+    if not para.strip():
         return "\n"
     words = para.split()
     lines = []