[O] shorter way of #+HTML: <br />

[Enda]

When I prepare an org file to convert into html, I have to have a lot
of

#+HTML: <br />

to break lines without a full full line space between them, should
there be or is there is shorter way to doing this?, like having a dot
on a line by itself for the html converter could mean a newline
(without a full line space) like:

Org mode
.
Emacs

would be converted to:

<p>
Org mode
<br />
Emacs
<p>

Best wishes,

Enda