Known bugs

Known Bugs

Strong and emphasized styles ignored in link text

The GUI viewer and ANSI text output do not recognize the strong and emphasized styles when applied to link text. Both interior and exterior styles fail to render. For example, consider the following Markdown syntax:

Markdown:

    [***interior***](http://) styles  
    ***[exterior](http://) styles***

The rendered output appears as follows (view this page with mdview to observe the bug):

interior styles
exterior styles

This issue marginally limits the visual presentation of links, potentially impacting the user experience.

No Heading link and Table of Contents entry (mitigated)

Three possible issues (md4c276, md4c277, md4c278) of the MD4C parser component reflect on mdview's heading link and Table of Content (ToC) features.

Mdview implements work-arounds to mitigate the effect of those issues.

• When a heading includes an odd number of *, _ or ~ characters, its ToC entry is rendered as plain text instead of as a link.

• When a heading includes a _ character that is surrounded by space or punctuation its ToC entry is rendered a plain text. The start and end of the heading are considered as space/punctuation.

List Item Margin Alignment

Markdown:

- a
  - b

1000. c

• a
  • b

1000. c

While any decent web browser will align a and c vertically, mdview cannot. However, for the more common case of ordered lists starting at 1 and containing up to 9 items, vertical alignment is maintained:

Markdown:

- a
  - b

1. c

• a
  • b

1. c