Update spec request to support mixed bold / italics

[Havunen]

Hey

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this issue.

Is there any chance to update the markdown specification to support mixed bold / italics. I was building WYSIWYG rich text editor which uses markdown as its data format in REST API. This issue arises when you start mixing bold and italic fonts.

For example,

I want to style a word so that first 3 characters are bold, last 3 characters are bold and then everything from second character till second last character is italic.

This case seems to fail in all markdown parser I found.

Links:

Markdown-it

CommonMark dingus

Marked

[jgm]

This isn't the right place, no. Try talk.commonmark.org. But, to answer your qusetion, this will work: `**E*****emphasi*****s**`

[Havunen]

@jgm

Your example did not work
I want to achieve following word:

EmphasiS
bold - bold and italic - italic - bold and italic - bold

See common mark: https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/?text=**E*****emphasi*****s**%0A its broken

[jgm]

Right. This is tricky but it can be done:

https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/?text=first%203%20characters%20are%20bold%2C%20last%203%20characters%20are%20bold%20and%20then%0Aeverything%20from%20second%20character%20till%20second%20last%20character%0Ais%20italic.%0A%0A**a*bc***%3C!--%20--%3E*mno*%3C!--%20--%3E***xy*z**%0A

Anyway, as noted, this is not the best place for questions like this: you should ask on https://talk.commonmark.org. This tracker is for bug reports.

[jgm]

Another option is to use a zero-width space:

**a*bc***​*mno*​***xy*z**