Copying HTML text with font weight 700+ or "bold" does not paste **bold** text

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Create a file index.html with the following content:
<b>b</b><br>
<strong>strong</strong><br>
<span style="font-weight: 699;">699</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 700;">700</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">bold</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bolder;">bolder</span><br>
  1. Open index.html in a browser (I used Chrome). Copy the content. Paste it to Obsidian.

Note: the MWE was inspired by an actual website using span class with style > font-weight: 700. The example is simply a more compact version of it.

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Expected result

Pasted content in bold except 699:
b
strong
699
700
bold
bolder

b
strong
699
700
bold
bolder

In other words, it should detect bold for font-weight 700 or more, and for “bold” (as well as “bolder” here, but technically it depends on the context).

This is what Typora does: it showed everything in bold, except 699, so they probably follow the convention that text starts getting bold at 700, which sounds good since 700 = bold in style standard (as long as devs won’t play putting values like 600 to disturb us).

Actual result

Obsidian will show this:

b
strong
699
700
bold
bolder

or the equivalent raw:

**b**
**strong**
699
700
bold
bolder

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.6.7
Installer version: v1.4.13
Operating system: #126-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 1 10:14:24 UTC 2024 5.15.0-116-generic
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

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Additional information

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I don’t consider this a bug. You can open a Feature Request to enhance The HTML to Markdown convert to account for these cases.

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