so this is a weird one: http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=%3Csup%3E*%3C%2Fsup%3EThe+[distinction]+between+certification+and+qualification%2C+although+vague%2C+appears+to+be+that+under+the+NASED+system%2C+states+did+the+ultimate+*certification*+of+a+voting+system+for+fitness+in+future+elections. Note that the `<sup>*</sup>` is being turned into `<sup><em></sup>` Here's a smaller more general case: http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=%3Csup%3E*%3C%2Fsup%3Eblah+*blah*+blah&src=1&dest=2 Although note that if I remove emphasis from the fn, it's fine: http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=%3Csup%3E*%3C%2Fsup%3Eblah+blah+blah&src=1&dest=2 best, Joe -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate UC Berkeley School of Information Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy http://josephhall.org/
> Note that the `<sup>*</sup>` is being turned into `<sup><em></sup>`Use python markdown 1.7, which doesn't do this. :) However, this is arguably the "correct" behavior and we've in fact _fixed_ this in the newer version of the python implementation, so that it now behaves like all other implementations. 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. so, the first * becomes <em> and the third one becomes </em>. Why it's the third and not the second, though I don't know. The new python markdown converts the second * into the closing em. - yuri -- http://spu.tnik.org/