homemade fn marker weirdness...

[John MacFarlane]

+++ Waylan Limberg [May 07 09 17:50 ]:

> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Yuri Takhteyev <qaramazov at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Note that the `<sup>*</sup>` is being turned into `<sup><em></sup>`

> >

> >

> > HTML tags are essentially getting ignored (as they should), so what

> > you really have is:

> >

> >    blah * blah blah blah blah blah  *certification* of blah blah.

> >

> 

> Thus, if you do not want one of those *'s to be part of an em, you

> need to escape it.

> 

>     <sup>\*</sup>blah *blah* blah


Or use peg-markdown, which has better heuristics.  :)