doesn't seem to work for neovim

[traut]

the instructions (*, _ and / wrappers) are recognized and are correctly hidden/shown but the style of the wrapped text does not change

NVIM v0.4.4
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.0.5
Compilation: /usr/bin/clang -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -DNDEBUG -DMIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wshadow -Wconversion -Wmissing-prototypes -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fno-common -fdiagnostics-color=auto -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNVIM_MSGPACK_HAS_FLOAT32 -DNVIM_UNIBI_HAS_VAR_FROM -I/tmp/neovim-20200808-89283-1us0ytm/neovim-0.4.4/build/config -I/tmp/neovim-20200808-89283-1us0ytm/neovim-0.4.4/src -I/usr/local/include -I/tmp/neovim-20200808-89283-1us0ytm/neovim-0.4.4/deps-build/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/tmp/neovim-20200808-89283-1us0ytm/neovim-0.4.4/build/src/nvim/auto -I/tmp/neovim-20200808-89283-1us0ytm/neovim-0.4.4/build/include
Compiled by brew@Catalina

Features: +acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/local/Cellar/neovim/0.4.4/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info