Markdown Issue with Last Word Styling and Trailing Space

[a.mancini]

Hello,

I've run into a snag while working with Markdown.
It seems there's an issue when the last word of my text is styled (e.g., bold) and ends with a space.

Any tips on resolving this or best practices to follow? Just want to make sure my text formats correctly according to Markdown rules.

Thanks for the help!

Best,
Alessandro Mancini

[Sergey Tkachenko]

I confirm the problem. It is in saving.

According to Markdown specification (TRichView uses CommonMark version), bold or italic fragment cannot end on a space character.
So in the code

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aaa **bbb **

bbb is not bold and asterisks must be displayed (check)

TRichView must modify saving procedure to avoid this problem. It already does it in the middle of paragraphs.
For example, in the text "aaa bbb ccc" bold space after "bbb" is saved as not bold:

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aaa **bbb** ccc

instead of incorrect

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aaa **bbb **ccc

We need to do the same thing at the end of paragraph.

Quick fix. Open RVMarkdownSave.pas, and change class procedure TRVMarkdownSavingData.FinalizeFormatting to

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class procedure TRVMarkdownSavingData.FinalizeFormatting(var CurS: TRVUnicodeString;
  var CurStyle: TFontStyles);
var
  Formatting: TRVUnicodeString;
  CT: TRVMDCharType;
begin
  if CurStyle <> [] then
  begin
    Formatting := '';
    if rvfsBold in CurStyle then
      Formatting := Formatting + '**';
    if rvfsItalic in CurStyle then
      Formatting := Formatting + '*';
    if Formatting <> '' then
    begin
      CT := GetLastCharType(CurS);
      if CT <> rvmdctWhitespace then
        CurS := CurS + Formatting
      else
        InsertBeforeTrailingWhitespaces(CurS, Formatting);
    end;
    CurStyle := CurStyle - [rvfsBold, rvfsItalic];
  end;
end;

Of course, the resulting document will be not exactly the same as the original. But this is a necessary compromise.

[a.mancini]

the fix works well, thank you for the support

[Sergey Tkachenko]

Fixed in TRichView 22.2