Bullets must be followed by whitespace
According to the Pandoc manual, in a bulleted list, bullets must be followed by whitespace: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#bullet-lists
However, Apostrophe dedents lines starting with a bullet character, even if not followed by whitespace. This is particularly a problem when a line starts with italic or bold text:
Environment: 2.2.0.2-daf77a68, built with GNOME Builder