Quoting italicized text followed by punctuation injects an extra space

[riking (Kane York)]

Example (pasted from another forum):

when I mention a book like The Great Gatsby or a movie like Breaker Morant , and when someone later quotes that passage,

Raw:

# Original:
when I mention a book like *The Great Gatsby* or a movie like *Breaker Morant*, and someone later quotes that passage,

# Pasted:
when I mention a book like  *The Great Gatsby*  or a movie like  *Breaker Morant* , and when someone later quotes that passage,

This appears to be in the HTML-to-Markdown pipeline, given that it shows up in a cross-site copy paste.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Yes this has been a bug for a good long while. It would be lovely if you could work on it, low-pri!

[adamengst (Adam C. Engst)]

I was just about to post about this as well before finding this old thread. I hit the bug with bold text a lot, though not with quoting. When I selected formatted text that includes bold (probably italic too), I get a space between the bold text and the punctuation.

Source Text:

Copied and pasted, Markdown version (Grammarly is underlining the extra spaces):

And rendered version where you can see the spaces being awkward.

I run into this all the time because I often move text like this from WordPress to Discourse. (I’d prefer to move from Google Docs to Discourse, but for some reason, Discourse doesn’t recognize bold and italic when pasted from Google Docs.)