Laith Bahodi <laithbahodi@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi! I'm working on a parser for org and I noticed something about
> nested markup in the syntax spec: markup starting at the limit of
> another object seems like it shouldn't be interpreted as markup. The
> spec says that the precondition characters are:
>
> PRE MARKER ...
> PRE
>   Either a whitespace character, -, (, {, ', ", or the beginning of a line.
> https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax-edited.html#Emphasis_Markers
>
> With links, since `[` isn't in that list, the spec seems to imply the
> following wouldn't contain an italic block, but it does:
>
> [[https://example.com][/according to the spec, this shouldn't be marked up/]]
>
> same goes for  */abc/* (since `*` isn't in the set defined by PRE)

Fair point. We indeed missed this detail in the syntax blueprint.

Does the attached patch clarify things?