auto_typography class error?

[eluser]epseix[/eluser]
Slightly confused as having read up on this class/library - it's exactly what I need to format large text pulled from my database - however, the line breaks do no generate the desired results when the text is pulled from a variable.

Code:

$variable = "This is a \n paragraph";
auto_typography($variable);

HTML source code:

Code:

<p>This is a \n paragraph</p>

Am I missing something?