Possible bug in rendering markdown lists

[Evan hamrick]

I'm seeing that markdown (which renders just fine in Pycharm mind you) of this form:

label
* thing 1
* thing 2  

is rendered with the asterisks being interpreted as italics formatting commands.

However, when I do this:

label

* thing 1
* thing 2  

The list appears correctly.

The markdown spec says "In CommonMark, a list can interrupt a paragraph. That is, no blank line is needed to separate a paragraph from a following list" 

Happy to file a bug on this if someone could confirm I'm reading the spec correctly.

[Daniil Penkin · Accepted solution]

Hello @Evan hamrick

You're right about CommonMark spec and this rule, however unfortunately Bitbucket doesn't yet use CommonMark to render markdown. Right now Python-Markdown is used, here's an overview.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Daniil

[Evan hamrick]

Thanks Daniil, I thought I saw a note somewhere that BB was using CommonMark but perhaps I'm getting my Atlassian products mixed up.

[Daniil Penkin]

No worries :)

It was probably about Bitbucket Server – it uses CommonMark. Hopefully one day Bitbucket Cloud will migrate rendering to use it too.

Cheers,
Daniil