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

[Ihor Radchenko]

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.

> 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.

Best,
Ihor