From b872ebadbb64c755f60f867acaa373e9109c0256713891c92dfbdb362dd5dbcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Johnson <nick@nicholasjohnson.ch>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000
Subject: Give rationale for bold/italics code

---
 layouts/_default/single.gmi | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/layouts/_default/single.gmi b/layouts/_default/single.gmi
index fdadecb..b871d67 100644
--- a/layouts/_default/single.gmi
+++ b/layouts/_default/single.gmi
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
 	{{ $rendered_text = $rendered_text | replaceRE `(?m)^[\t ]*(\S.+?)[\t ]*\n\-+$` "## $1" -}}
 
 	{{/* remove bold and italics asterisk symbols */ -}}
+	{{/* note: this operation is performed in 3 steps to handle nested bold and italics */ -}}
 	{{ $rendered_text = $rendered_text | replaceRE `\*{3}(\S(?:.*\S)?)\*{3}` "$1" -}}
 	{{ $rendered_text = $rendered_text | replaceRE `\*{2}(\S(?:.*\S)?)\*{2}` "$1" -}}
 	{{ $rendered_text = $rendered_text | replaceRE `\*{1}(\S(?:.*\S)?)\*{1}` "$1" -}}
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