Link text containing markdown does not display the text which is formatted

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This fragment:

[Some _markdowned text_](a url)

mdv is not showing the text, "markdowned text". When editing this text in vim, it shows the text in question, and formats it in italics. I tried with other formatting with the same result. Here is the output from mdv:

  Some ①
  [1] a url

The source of mdv says version 1.6.3 (mdv --version output says v0.1).