Bold across newline is not recognized as bold

Given the text 
  """
  this is some **bold
  text**
  """
When I render
Then "bold text" should be bold
# But it's not

Sorry to bother you with this @burodepeper, but do you think it can be fixed easily?

[burodepeper]

To each his own. Anyway, I don’t think I can help you with this issue any further at this moment. I’m hoping they’ll use a different grammar parsing engine in 2.0.

[burodepeper]

Off the top, I’d say it shouldn’t go across a markdown-block. (So * is either terminated with a * or \n\n)

This is exactly one of the things that’s impossible. The match alternative parses single lines, without a possibility of looking ahead or behind beyond that line. The begin alternative can only be successfully terminated by an end match. You can’t negate the begin-match.

This approach works good enough for programming languages, because proper grammar is absolute, and because the grammar rules are rather strict. An opening ( needs a closing ). I have yet to come across any false-positive while programming.

I’ll also be sure to put some good test coverage if I do this

There are already a bunch of tests in place, a good chunk of them disabled for these reasons.