On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 9:18 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I am also not a fan of using Unicode here and prefer a simple ascii
> asterisk. That works fine for me so far, but I am not a heavy user of bold
> markup and citations.

What about something like [cite/citet*/:@key]?
"*/" is not recognised as bold ending.

That is a great solution when you want to have bold, and it would be optional if you don’t use bold there.  You still would need to add * to the cite pattern. 



> As I mentioned there is the same problem for links, and in the last 10
> years I can’t recall an issue being reported with bold.

This is because links containing "\\*[ -.,;:!?'")}\\[]" match are
extremely rare.

In contrast, [cite/citet*:@key] is likely to be used fairly frequently
and has much higher chance to break things.

We have had a citet*:key link (and all the other * variants) for a long time in org-ref, with no reported issues I can recall. 



Best,
Ihor

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John

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