Blog excerpt formatting issue

[mingaldrichgan]

Steps to reproduce

Visit https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/ (or scroll to the bottom of https://www.gatsbyjs.org under Latest from the Gatsby blog) and look at excerpt for Delivering Modern Website Experiences: The Journey to a Content Mesh from October 4 (currently the second result).

Actual result

The CMS was born to make content sites possible . Now, it’s being reimagined to make them incredible . In the early 2000s, publishing on…

Note the extra space after "possible" and "incredible", before each period. Inspecting the DOM, I see extra spaces on both sides of those words:

The CMS was born to make content sites  possible .
Now, it’s being reimagined to make them  incredible .
In the early 2000s, publishing on…

Looking at the Markdown source, it looks like underscores are getting replaced by spaces while generating the excerpt.

Expected result

This depends on whether the excerpt is intended to be plaintext or formatted.

If plaintext, I would expect the underscores to get stripped out entirely, leaving no space before each period.

If formatted, I would expect the words possible and incredible to be italicized.

Comments

I assume this bug (if it is a bug) lies in gatsby-transformer-remark but I'm hoping that someone more familiar with the codebase will be able to clarify the expected behavior and where that behavior is implemented. I wouldn't mind picking this up for Hacktoberfest… 👻

[pieh]

I think it should be formatted - there is open issue for it #4459 and PR for it #5586 - PR is abandoned now, so you can use that as starting point. I'll go to PR to document what need to be done there

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