Terminating emphasis

[istathar]

Terminating emphasis

[mrkkrp]

as escaped, shouldn't have been part of the word, and so the emphasis span should have been valid

Please see here: https://github.com/mmark-md/mmark#mmark-and-common-mark. Character after _ should have lower "level", but when something is escaped it becomes other character with level 2.

I agree, I couldn't figure out a good story for this (yet?). The present version is already much better than what we had before, it allows most combinations. In fact, I processed by entire blog with this, including all tutorials and stuff without issues.

[istathar]

Read it again now more closely. Ok: why does escaping a punctuation character level 1 (actually, markup character, which is why it needed escaping in the first place) escalate it to other character level 2? I would have expected escaping the markdown significant character to simply mean it wasn't treated as significant, returning it to punctuation.

(ah, if only it were easy to use U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE in text files)

AfC

[mrkkrp]

I would have expected escaping the markdown significant character to simply mean it wasn't treated as significant, returning it to punctuation.

Then other cases would become problematic, e.g.

Here goes *(something\)*.

The truth is that in both cases there will be awkward situations. We need something more clever here. Unfortunately, I have little time to spend on MMark these days. And whatever time I have I'll be spending working on Megaparsec 7.