On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 10 Mar 2015 at 09:50, Rasmus wrote:
> > Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> >> Since this one is not much more intrusive than the previous one, we
> >> could as well drop @key in favor of @{key}.
> >
> > It seems like a moderately dear price to pay for everyone with "normal"
> > citation keys...  It's better than @key-with-',?.'{}.
>
> I agree.  I would rather type @key >90% of the time instead of
> @{key}.  For me, the alternative is more than a moderately high price to
> pay!
>
> If we don't want a proliferation of alternative syntax, maybe we need to
> impose the restriction already suggested of not allowing punctuation at
> the end of a key.  Solve the problem upstream... and not have the tail
> wag the dog!
>
> But, of course, don't let this tail (me) wag the dog (the rest of you)
> should the consensus be that the design is cleaner with @{key}.  I'll
> manage!  :)
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>

I also think a simpler key syntax will make htis much nmore usable.
Citations are in general somewhat distracting from the writing process;
every additional keystroke is gong to add to that distraction.  This is
true even if hand-added citations are likely to be the exception rather
than the norm.



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