On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 12:17 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 5:07 PM John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I was looking into using latex commands as styles in org-cite, e.g.
> >>
> >> [cite/citet:@key]. That example works fine, but [cite/citet*:@key] is
> not allowed. Could that be allowed?
> >
> > I have no insight into the restriction, but I hope it can be removed.
>
> I do like the proposal in general, but I can see a potential issue for
> users. Constructs like "word*:" can be recognised as a valid bold
> emphasis ending. For example:
>
> >>> Some *bold emphasis with reference [cite/citet*:@key] will end
> >>> at "citet*", but not here*.
>

That is a fair point, and also an issue with links that have * in them
(which is also already allowed). I can't say it has ever been reported as
an issue though.

>
> Note that inserting zero-width space will not only be awkward here, but
> also breaks parser: e.g. [cite/cite<zwspace>t:@key] is not currently
> recognised as a citation.


A less awkward solution (IMO) would be to use an entity like ⋆.  It is
straightforward to add that to the org-element-citation-prefix-re. Then I
see something like this.

[image: image.png]
I don't know how difficult it would be to improve the emphasis handling, it
seems like the start/end markers should not cross some element boundaries.


>
> Best,
> Ihor
>