Escaped semi-colons after bold text in markdown render the backslash escape character

[AlexGidman]

We're using a CMS that adds escape characters on publish. We've just moved to svelte using MDsveX to pre-process markdown files. The previous system we used would happily accept the following

**Text**\: and render it as Text:

However, MDsveX renders the backslash as follows:

Text\:

Other markdown previewers we've used to check this behaviour (including the GitHub comment section) ignore and do not render the escape character, so we suspect this is specific to MDsveX.

[dbaynard]

Hello, I can reproduce this — in my case, I have \$ in the markdown, which is rendered as \$, rather than $ (as would be the case for a commonmark parser). All the other software handling this text is commonmark compatible.

I've tried using remark-plugin-math to no avail. I even started to implement an ad-hoc plugin, that just handles these escape sequences, before I found this issue.

What is the current status of work on this?

[dbaynard]

Hello, please excuse the bump on this. It seems like a renderer bug like this should be high priority — I see it has been assigned, but there's no timeline on a fix. I'm willing to help — @pngwn what is your current state of progress?