Obsidian markdown does not conform to CommonMark

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Steps to reproduce

Type examples from the CommonMark spec, e.g. 250, 251, 112, 113, 116, 596

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yes

Expected result

Rendered markdown that conforms to the CommonMark specification and matches the examples’ expected output

Actual result

Rendered text that does not match the specification

Additional information

For a qualitative idea of the error, (besides the list of wrong examples) I have noted the following issues so far:

  • Nested quotes do not behave lazily, only the outermost quote block does
  • Indented code blocks do not include spaces correctly
  • autolinks are not parsed
    There may be more, I have not exhaustively looked through the spec examples, nor the Github markdown spec.
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Please include the “debug info” output as asked for in the BR template. Thanks.

I don’t have time to look all those up. If you want any traction on this, show specific examples in a code block and how those examples behave in Obsidian.

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Hello,
it’s likely that bug reports/feature reports already exists for these.

Please, search for individual problems before posting and if don’t find a match open a new BR for each of them.

4

Also make sure to check in reading view, not just live preview, because it usually renders more accurately when they differ.

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yep, noticed that and will check in the future