"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.
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