Footnotes broken when adjacent to markup such as strong or em

Basically, there are some situations where I have notation that looks like this in the Visual Editor:

Hello this has a citation! ((My citation))

And it doesn't turn it into a footnote. Why? Because in the code editor, it looks like this:

<strong>Hello this has a citation! </strong>((My citation))

There's no way in the Visual Editor to tell that the space before the parens in this case is inside the <strong> tag. As a result, WP-Footnotes does not see the space-paren-parent it uses to figure out when to render, and does not render.