Markdown Style Formatting Preview Whitespace Bug

[domportera]

Having a space between formatting markdown elements makes the format extend beyond the intended text. This only happens in editing mode - when in reading more it works fine. It seems like an off-by-one error since placing a space at the start of the formatting removes the style preview altogether

Steps to reproduce

• Type a word or phrase
• place formatting around it (bold, italic, underline, etc)
• type a space at the end or start of the entry

Expected result

Only the intended text’s format would be previewed

Actual result

More text was formatted in the preview than intended

Environment

• Operating system: Windows 10

• Obsidian version: 0.12.10

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Additional information

[stevelw]

This is (mostly) following standard Markdown rules.

But if you surround an * or _ with spaces, it’ll be treated as a literal asterisk or underscore.

So in your second example, the first asterisk opens <emp> but the second is a literal asterisk and so the <emp> is never closed.

The third example is the opposite.

So, Obsidian is being inconsistent with its parsing here, but neither example is valid Markdown so all bets are off.

[domportera]

thanks for taking the time to give me this info!