It's not so much a bug perhaps as behavior to be aware of.
In introducing a block comment using |# and #| the page responded as if I had introduced {br}
The answer was to place the first comment characters at the end of the line for the last Curl expression which I wished to display before the excerpted item ( in this case, a {link } expression. )
Once that was done, the unexpected linefeed disappeared. Here is the revised page:
![[Image: aule-page-home-html-08a-sml.jpg]](http://aule-pages.aule-browser.com/images/aule-page-home-html-08a-sml.jpg)