you should probably trim each key, and re-add spaces where you want them in the function that does these kinds of things. Maybe that should even be controlled by a defcustom that allows 0-1 spaces. John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin (he/him/his) Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 9:38 AM Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 5:40 AM Nicolas Goaziou > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Vikas Rawal writes: > > > > > I find it works better for me if I insert spaces between multiple > > > citations. For example: [cite: @john56; @john35; @bruce2021] rather > > > than [cite:@john56;@john35;@bruce2021]. > > > > > > The of advantage is that if I am citing many references in one place, > > > and use fill-paragraph/auto-fill, they wrap nicely. As far as I can > > > see, having spaces in between works just fine. > > > > > > If this does not break anything, should this be the recommended > > > practice for the org-cite-insert-processors? > > > > Done, at least for insert processors relying on > > `org-cite-make-insert-processor'. Thank you. > > There is one little issue I see. > > Org-ref, and in turn org-ref-cite, have functions, attached via keymap > on the citation face, that allow one to shift the citation-references > within a citation. > > I've borrowed some of that for oc-bibtex-actions as well. > > So if I insert a citation using org-cite-insert, I get this: > > [cite:@samers2002; @kohn2005] > > If I then shift the right one left, I get this, which seems less than > ideal: > > [cite: @kohn2005;@samers2002;] > > WDYT? > > Bruce > >