Weird italics and emphasis about markdown HOT 3 CLOSED

Hello,

double asterisks / underscores mark up strong emphasis. This markup is purely logical and does not need to be rendered using a bold font face. In fact, these are the default LaTeX renderers for emphasis (single asterisks / underscores) and strong emphasis defined by the package:

emphasis = {\emph{#1}},
strongEmphasis = {%
    \ifx\alert\undefined
        \textbf{\emph{#1}}%
    \else % Beamer support
        \alert{\emph{#1}}%
    \fi},

If you are dissatisfied with the default strong empasis renderer, you may redefine it to just switch to the bold font face:

\markdownSetup{
    renderers = {
        strongEmphasis = {\textbf{#1}},
    }
}

Cheers

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You may even set up a more intricate behaviour that switches between the bold and medium font faces when you **nest__the**strong**emphasis__**:

\newif\ifnestedstrong
\nestedstrongfalse
\markdownSetup{
    renderers = {
        strongEmphasis = {%
          \ifnestedstrong
              \nestedstrongfalse
              \textmd{#1}%
              \nestedstrongtrue
          \else
              \nestedstrongtrue
              \textbf{#1}%            
              \nestedstrongfalse
          \fi
        },
    }
}

Perhaps I should use something similar as the default renderer for the strong emphasis, since it is closer to the behavior one would expect and more in line with how \emph behaves in most document classes. This is why you should redefine the renderers that you expect to render in a specific manner, since the defaults are subject to change. The package manual is clear on that point, although I try to keep such changes to a minimum.

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Thank you for a clarification. I was just confused when I tried basics of markup and got "wrong" result (different visualisation than I expected). I thing that your proposed solution is much better because people familiar with markdown would expect bold as a strongEmphasis rather than with italics as well.

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