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jgm / pandoc-citeproc

Library and executable for using citeproc with pandoc
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Request: allow ’ [smart apostrophe] in cite keys #127

Closed njbart closed 6 years ago

njbart commented 9 years ago

At least the xelatex/biber combo accepts these in biblatex cite keys.

zotxt generates "Easy Citekeys" containing ’ from names such as “O’Connor”, but currently pandoc chokes on these.

I don’t see any downside to permitting ’ just like many other UTF-8 chars (including accented and other modified chars) that work well in cite keys.

Apart from ’, I don’t think there are any other non-letter characters that could be expected to occur in names, but in case there are, these should be allowed, too.

jgm commented 9 years ago

The problem I see is with things like this (author-in-text):

according to @Smith’s study, ...

If the apostrophe is considered part of the cite key, then we won't be looking for Smith, which is clearly what is intended here.

njbart commented 6 years ago

Agreed. Aesthetic considerations aside, there is nothing wrong with just using citekeys without any apostrophes. I’m closing this issue.