John Kitchin <jkitc...@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