brannerchinese/stockscrape — pull request #2 by astrieanna (2013-02-26 03:54:46+00:00)
Title: Update README.md

The lack of spaces between the parens and the asterisks does seem to be causing the problem. Specifically:

+ Ok:
- **Finished**
- **Finished**)
- ( **Finished**)
+ Not ok:
- (**Finished**
- (**Finished**)
- )**Finished**
- (*Finished*)
- .**Finished**.
- A**Finished**

Switching the asterisks to underscores did not help.

I believe this to be a bug in github's Markdown parser.
They probably have a rule that expects , when I think it should really be at the beginning. (+ meaning one-or-more, * meaning zero-or-more)

The easiest way to route around the bug without adding spaces (which look weird in this case) is to just stick the html tags in there.