Re: org-cite styles don't allow * in them

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 5:08 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:

> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> >> 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.
>
> I respect your experience in this regard. If the discussed issue is
> uncommon in practice, we may simply provide citet* and similar styles +
> fallback citet*/ as an alias. The citet* will be the default while
> citet*/ may be suggested, say, by org-lint if we add a new checker for
> this.
>

Just to clarify, I don't believe the discussion is to add such styles to
the included org-cite processors (which already support such
functionality), but rather to allow it, for example for third party ones;
say a hypothetical org-ref one.

Bruce



> P.S. Thinking more about org-lint, I imagine that it could be a good
> practice to run org-lint before every export. For example, it can save
> people from a common problem with handling broken links during export.
>
> Best,
> Ihor
>

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