MacDownApp / MacDownApp/macdown
`(*) *BOLD* text` renders wrong in code-pane
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Description
It considers the first two `*`s to be the start and end of bold-text, rather than the second and third.
The preview pane gets it right!
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the issue in the code pane with `(*) *BOLD* text` and compare it with the preview pane, which is reported to render it correctly. Trace the code-pane Markdown rendering path and consider the issue done when the second and third asterisks delimit the bold text consistently with the preview.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- markdown
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100