"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,