applies to next contiguous sequence of non empty lines (chars, numbers, symbols) example input: **a ** b c d

Continue here: [image] Parsers problems with Bold, Italic, Highlight markers and whitespaces Bug reports Both Editor(s) (source mode & live preview) and reading mode do not handle correctly markdown markers for bold, italic, highlight, etc when spaces (whitespace) between…

This is a quirk of Live Preview. If you switch to Reading View you’ll see a more correct rendering. But strictly speaking, the example shouldn’t render as bold at all. https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#emphasis-and-strong-emphasis https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#example-365 (I’m pointing ou…

so it’s a bug the spec is a dummy tho cos the text will be flickering from styled to unstyled while typing

That’s not the spec’s concern. “Live preview” style editors are a relatively recent thing in Markdown’s history.

my man don’t sidetrack the conversation with theory, it shouldn’t apply bold to next lines

I’m not “sidetracking” with “theory”. The spec is a practical reference. Please be civil — dismissiveness isn’t how we roll here.

Editor: Trailing space makes bold line apply to next lines

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