Bold and italics adjacent to parentheses are ignored.

[rcrowley]

This is bold.

This is italics.

(This should be bold.)

(This should be italics.)

( This is bold. )

( This is italics. )

( This should be bold.)

( This should be italics.)

(This should be bold. )

(This should be italics. )

[brief]

Good catch. It also applies to square brackets -- [This should be bold] vs [ This should be bold ].

As an aside, this issue should probably be moved to sundown.

[aprescott]

Weirdly, this doesn't work on GitHub but does work with Redcarpet?

puts Redcarpet::Markdown.new(Redcarpet::Render::SmartyHTML).render(%q{
(**This should be bold.**)

(*This should be italics.*)

(**This should be bold.**)

(*This should be italics.*)

(**This should be bold**)
(*This should be italics*)

[**This should be bold**]
[*This should be italics*]
})

output:

<p>(<strong>This should be bold.</strong>)</p>

<p>(<em>This should be italics.</em>)</p>

<p>(<strong>This should be bold.</strong>)</p>

<p>(<em>This should be italics.</em>)</p>

<p>(<strong>This should be bold</strong>)
(<em>This should be italics</em>)</p>

<p>[<strong>This should be bold</strong>]
[<em>This should be italics</em>]</p>

Perhaps GitHub isn't running the same version of Redcarpet and this was fixed?

[robin850]

Github isn't using Redcarpet anymore to parse markdown. See #212 for details. I can't reproduce this issue on my machine and @aprescott doesn't have the issue. We can close this for now. By the way, thanks @aprescott, you are often contributing to fix issues. It's too kind! 😄

[aprescott]

My pleasure!

I wonder if we can get the bug fixed with GitHub just for good measure. I'll report it so they at least know (although it'd surprise me if they didn't already).