Thanks, that makes sense. Although I’d like to point out that one of the listed problems with commonmark, and the problem you mention, are not problems with Pandoc markdown:

    : echo "word**withboldtext**inside" | pandoc
    <p>word<strong>withboldtext</strong>inside</p>

    : echo "a*?*b" | pandoc
    <p>a<em>?</em>b</p>