The most popular markdown parser on npm hasn't seen a release in 7 years, and the second most popular markdown parser emits an unclosed <em> whenever you use *emphasis* syntax on any line other than the last line of a paragraph.
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Gave that a try and got the abandoned-for-7-years package followed by some other packages that have fewer weekly downloads than the one that's broken.
That may just be what folks are using though. Abandoned for 7 years means it's for sure something other than commonmark, but maybe that's fine?
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it has 2% as many weeklies as the other one though
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2% almost certainly means the one with more downloads is in fact is more used, but download count is an inherently flawed metric. Package a which is depended on by package b is always going to have >= download count of b, and a may not be the package app code is picking
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