On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 12:17 AM Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdar...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 5:07 PM John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> > wrote: > >> > >> I was looking into using latex commands as styles in org-cite, e.g. > >> > >> [cite/citet:@key]. That example works fine, but [cite/citet*:@key] is > not allowed. Could that be allowed? > > > > I have no insight into the restriction, but I hope it can be removed. > > I do like the proposal in general, but I can see a potential issue for > users. Constructs like "word*:" can be recognised as a valid bold > emphasis ending. For example: > > >>> Some *bold emphasis with reference [cite/citet*:@key] will end > >>> at "citet*", but not here*. > That is a fair point, and also an issue with links that have * in them (which is also already allowed). I can't say it has ever been reported as an issue though. > > Note that inserting zero-width space will not only be awkward here, but > also breaks parser: e.g. [cite/cite<zwspace>t:@key] is not currently > recognised as a citation. A less awkward solution (IMO) would be to use an entity like ⋆. It is straightforward to add that to the org-element-citation-prefix-re. Then I see something like this. [image: image.png] I don't know how difficult it would be to improve the emphasis handling, it seems like the start/end markers should not cross some element boundaries. > > Best, > Ihor >
