Unclosed Star Emphasis
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*emphasized* run opens with * but no closing * appears before the end of the block.
Q-2-12 — Unclosed Star Emphasis
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*emphasized*run opens with*but no closing*appears before the end of the block.
What this means
Star-delimited emphasis (*text*) must be balanced inside the
same block. This error fires when an opening * appears without
a matching close before the block ends.
Why this happens
A typo, an unclosed sentence mid-edit, or — less commonly — a literal asterisk in plain prose that the parser took as an emphasis opener.
How to fix
Add the closing * at the intended end, or escape a literal
asterisk:
The marker \* (literal asterisk).Example
foo* a