MacDownApp / MacDownApp/macdown

Bolding and Italicizing with Newlines

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Description

If you select a line of text including the newline, the asterisks are incorrectly placed after the newline. If the brackets indicate the selection:

[Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

]

Macdown transforms the text to:
*Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

*

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Research direction

Reproduce the selection behavior in MacDown by selecting a line together with its newline and applying bold or italic formatting. The work is done when the formatting markers remain on the selected line instead of placing the closing marker after an extra newline; the payload names no source file or test to start from.

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Assessment

Tech stack
macos, markdown, objective-c
Domain
content, desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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