The commonmark spec for emphasis/strong (https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#emphasis-and-strong-emphasis) specifies in its rules that in foo*a* the first * opens emphasis, but in foo*_* it doesn't. This is because it is not a left-flanking delimiter run, as it is followed by punctuation, but not preceded by punctuation or whitespace.
In the same fashion, it would make sense for sup (and in the same sense probably also for sub) to follow the same rules, i.e. to convert foo^a^ to superscript, but not foo^*^. Pandoc, from which the superscript syntax is borrowed, also honors these rules (as can be seen in https://pandoc.org/try/).
Would it be possible to change this extension so that this rule from the spec is honored and foo^*^ is converted to <p>foo^*^</p> instead of superscript?
The commonmark spec for emphasis/strong (https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#emphasis-and-strong-emphasis) specifies in its rules that in
foo*a*the first*opens emphasis, but infoo*_*it doesn't. This is because it is not a left-flanking delimiter run, as it is followed by punctuation, but not preceded by punctuation or whitespace.In the same fashion, it would make sense for
sup(and in the same sense probably also forsub) to follow the same rules, i.e. to convertfoo^a^to superscript, but notfoo^*^. Pandoc, from which the superscript syntax is borrowed, also honors these rules (as can be seen in https://pandoc.org/try/).Would it be possible to change this extension so that this rule from the spec is honored and
foo^*^is converted to<p>foo^*^</p>instead of superscript?