Re: Inconsistent text markup handling when double-nesting markers

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> Isn't nested bold for "**bold**" a bug? Generally it is not allowed and
>
>       *b1 *b2* b3*
>
> is parsed as bold only for "b1 *b2".

No, **bold** it is not a bug. The parser is recursive with inner markup
not "seeing" its parent. So, we first parse the outer bold and then
continue parsing the contents separately, as *bold*.

Be it another way, /*bold italic*/ would also not be allowed as
we demand bol, whitespace, -, (, {, ', or " before the markup:
https://orgmode.org/worg/org-syntax.html#Emphasis_Markers

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