Obsidian Publish parses Bold/Italic differently than Desktop

[TotallyGatsby]

Steps to reproduce

Create a page with a bold italic item, using the following syntax:

_**Some Bold Line

Note that in the Obsidian editor, this line will appear bold and italic. When published, however, it will render as standard text with a “_**” before it.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y]

Did you try the above steps in the sandbox vault (or just any vault started in restricted mode, no snippets and default theme)? Yes

Expected result

I expect Published pages to show:

Some Text

Actual result

The Published page shows:
_**Some Text

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.6.7
Installer version: v1.6.7
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.5.0: Wed May 1 20:12:58 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.121.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 23.5.0
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: off
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

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Additional information

Publish:

Desktop

[Pch]

@TotallyGatsby

_**Some Bold Line

I don’t use Obsidian Publish but what happens if you write a “full” bold and italic sample text (i.e.: surrounded by an opening _** and closing **_) ? …

I mean, what happens if you use this:

_**Some Bold Line**_

instead of this:

_**Some Bold Line

[TotallyGatsby]

Yes, when you close the bold and italic, they both render consistently.

It’s easy enough to work around, I just have to make sure I close my tags.

But Obsidian and Obsidian Publish should probably have a consistent behavior. Either they should both render the text as bold and italic, or both render it as incomplete.

[CawlinTeffid]

What view are you using on desktop? (I’d expect Reading View to correspond to Publish; Live Preview sometimes has rendering quirks.)

[TotallyGatsby]

Oh, fascinating.

Reading view does indeed show it as:

_**Some text

Edit view (non-source), however, renders it as

Some text

So, I guess I can check before uploading by toggling reading view. Edit and reading look so similar I never bother switching into Reading. Guess I’ll have to make that a habit.

[WhiteNoise]

Yes, you must close your tags. Source mode acts that way because it’s forward looking parser only.