If you try **b.**a on https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/ you would see its b. is not bolded
however if you just omit the last a, it works.
what is the common mark format to bold it correctly ( that is bolded a. followed by unbolded b)
solution to format the text correctly in common mark. thank you
>Solution :
According to section 6.2 of the CommonMark specification, that behaviour is by design:
A delimiter run is either a sequence of one or more * characters […]
A right-flanking delimiter run is a delimiter run that is (1) not preceded by Unicode whitespace, and either (2a) not preceded by a Unicode punctuation character, or (2b) preceded by a Unicode punctuation character and followed by Unicode whitespace or a Unicode punctuation character.
You can get the desired visual appearance with **b.**​a, where ​ is the HTML entity "zero-width joiner", thus:
**b.**a
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