"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdar...@gmail.com> writes:

> I was just interacting with one of the org-roam-bibtex developers about
> org-cite.
>
> He noted that citekeys can only start with an underscore or alpha character.
>
> Is that a necessary restriction?
>
> He, it turns out, mostly has keys of the form '2020-DOE-ABC".

It is not a necessary restriction.

What do you suggest as the first character? Underscore, and
alphanumeric? So keys would need to:

  - start with _ or alnum
  - end with _ or alnum
  - optionally contain any alnum or symbol among #$%&+./:<>?_~-

Regards,

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