Summary
In Japanese prose, bold spans wrapped in corner brackets and immediately followed by a character — e.g.
ですがあるとき、**「掴んだ」**という感覚がありました。
— are not converted to <strong> by markdown-it-py. The raw ** asterisks appear in the published article.
This is spec-compliant CommonMark behavior (the closing ** is preceded by punctuation 」 and followed by a letter, so it is not right-flanking), not a bug in this MCP. Filing as a feature request because the pattern is extremely common in Japanese writing and the failure is silent and ugly on note.com.
Hit 9 occurrences in a single real article (2026-06-10).
Possible approaches
- Post-process unconverted
**...** spans after markdown-it conversion (fallback to <strong>), similar to what Japanese blog tooling commonly does.
- Or document the limitation in README and recommend inline
<strong>…</strong> (which works today and is what I used as a workaround).
Happy to contribute option 1 if you think it fits the project.
Summary
In Japanese prose, bold spans wrapped in corner brackets and immediately followed by a character — e.g.
— are not converted to
<strong>by markdown-it-py. The raw**asterisks appear in the published article.This is spec-compliant CommonMark behavior (the closing
**is preceded by punctuation」and followed by a letter, so it is not right-flanking), not a bug in this MCP. Filing as a feature request because the pattern is extremely common in Japanese writing and the failure is silent and ugly on note.com.Hit 9 occurrences in a single real article (2026-06-10).
Possible approaches
**...**spans after markdown-it conversion (fallback to<strong>), similar to what Japanese blog tooling commonly does.<strong>…</strong>(which works today and is what I used as a workaround).Happy to contribute option 1 if you think it fits the project.