How do I get HTML Tidy to not put newline before closing tags?

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Published on 2010-03-22T11:09:07Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 11:11 UTC
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HTML Tidy has this infuriating habit of putting a newline before the closing tag. For example:

<p>Some text</p>

becomes

<p>Some text
</p>

How do I tell Tidy to keep the closing tag on the same line as the end of the content?

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