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Bad italics with underscores within word

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#180 opened on Mar 30, 2022

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Description

Repro:

(markdown.core/md-to-html-string "foo_bar_baz")
;;=> "<p>foo<i>bar</i>baz</p>"

Expected:

(markdown.core/md-to-html-string "foo_bar_baz")
;;=> "<p>foo_bar_baz</p>"

For reference, see this commonmark.js dingus.

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Research direction
Inspect the markdown parser's handling of underscores, specifically within words. Modify the tokenizer or rule for emphasis to only trigger on underscore delimiters that are not inside a word using word boundaries.
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