No bold formatting of text in parentheses

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Problem: No bold formatting for text in parentheses, when there are leading or trailing characters around the parentheses.

Example text in which we want to highlight (5255):

1.0.15 Build 20200721 rel.40773(5255)

40773**(5255)** → NOK
40773(5255)
407735255

Now we add a single dot at the end of the first line.
Notice how 1st, 2nd + 3rd line change:

40773**(5255).
40773(5255)
407735255**

Playing around with other examples

No parentheses: All is OK.

parentheses → OK
parentheses → OK
aparentheses1 → OK
aparenthesesa → OK
aparentheses.1 → OK
aparentheses#1 → OK
aparentheses?1 → OK

With parentheses: Strange things happen.

parentheses → OK
(parentheses) → OK
**(parentheses)**1 → NOK
(parentheses).1 → OK
**(parentheses)**a → NOK
(parentheses).a → NOK
(parentheses)#1 → OK
(parentheses)?1 → OK

a**(parentheses)1 → NOK
a(parentheses)**1 → NOK

a**(parentheses)**1 → NOK

Two times the same line, separated by blank line

paren**(thes)**es → NOK

paren**(thes)**es → NOK

Same as above, except no blank line separation

(paren)theses → NOK
paren(theses) → NOK

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If I recall correctly, this is a limitation of the Markdown spec.

https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/blob/bc1ebdb9a938dd94af0a7022f7b64b01a18cb411/spec.txt#L6092

https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/

This is the spec we follow. Try there – it doesn’t work either.

There are limitations to what parsers can do in a performant way, and I can’t say I’ve seen a Markdown parser work as you’re describing in any instance, though I could be wrong.

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