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Multiple Markdown/LaTeX formatting bugs and renderer quirks #245
Description
This is a tracking issue for formatting bugs and surprising renderer behaviours found while working with markdownviewer.pages.dev.
Each issue mentioned can be found here which shows the expected vs. actual behaviour.
The issues:
- Headings & anchors: duplicate heading IDs aren't de-duplicated (1).
- Lists: mixed bullet markers don't start a new list (2).
- Currency/dollar-sign parsing: unrelated
$on same line (3); balckslahed$turning into$inside a code block (4). - Footnotes & definition lists: footnote syntax leaking out of code (5); multi-term definitions not recognized (6).
- LaTeX/MathJax: superscript ^ leaking into same line text (7); escaped underscore not showing (8); broken
\left\{/\right\}delimiters (9, 11);\colorbleeding onto unbraced content (10).
Activity
ThisIs-Developer commentedon Aug 24, 2026
Thank you for reporting this issue and for identifying these important Markdown and LaTeX rendering problems in Markdown Viewer.
I’m looking into these issues and will keep you updated as I investigate and work on the fixes.
Also, thank you for sharing all the detailed examples through Share Snapshot. Having the expected and actual behavior together made the issues much easier to understand and reproduce.
Really appreciate you taking the time to document everything so clearly!
[-]Multiple Markdown/LaTeX formatting bugs and renderer quirks in Markdown Viewer[/-][+]Multiple Markdown/LaTeX formatting bugs and renderer quirks[/+]jeshmate8 commentedon Aug 24, 2026
Thanks for looking into these, and I'm happy to help.
I really love the viewer, and I hope these issues can get resolved.
ThisIs-Developer commentedon Aug 24, 2026
@jeshmate8 Hi, I’ve fixed the mentioned issues. Could you please check the updated version using this link?
https://fix-issue-245-formatting-pip.markdownviewer.pages.dev/#id=asnybya2w4&edit=1
Please let me know if you notice anything else.
jeshmate8 commentedon Aug 24, 2026
Thanks for the quick fix. I checked the updated version, and everything looks fixed except for these 2 things:
Issue 2 still doesn't appear to be fixed. Changing the marker should start a new list, but
-and*are still merged into one list. See screenshot for the expected behaviour here.For Issue 3, I'm not sure what logic is currently being used to distinguish plain
$from math$...$, but I think requiring\$for literal dollar signs could make this more predictable, as I think your current logic uses commas to detect the difference, see example below:Other than these 2, everything looks great. Thanks again.
Merge pull request #249 from ThisIs-Developer/fix/issue-245-formattin…
ThisIs-Developer commentedon Aug 27, 2026
Hi @jeshmate8, thank you for the clarification.
I’ve resolved all the known issues reported here, and the fix PR has now been merged into
main.I used this shared Markdown file to verify the fixes:
https://markdownviewer.pages.dev/#id=4ajvbmmgc5&edit=1
If you find any new issues, please let me know or feel free to create a new issue.
Thank you again for pointing out all these problems and helping make Markdown Viewer better.
Happy coding! 🚀
jeshmate8 commentedon Aug 27, 2026
@ThisIs-Developer thanks.