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

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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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
>
> --
John

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