On Sat, Apr 18 2020, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
The question, then: Is that what you're saying; we don't need
suppress-author?
I think I actually agree, though will add a topic that came up
in the
CSL implementation discussion for the author-in-text styles in
the
past few days.
Here's a common way a citation might be integrated in a
narrative text:
Doe, by contrast, found negative results (2017).
There are other constructions in with suppress-author is useful.
For example, possessives:
Doe's (2017) results...
or
Doe's (2017) ground braking paper...
Such use is not uncommon in my field.
Also, consider languages that require a case ending on the author
name. And who knows what quirks other languages may have?
So we have the author name in-text, than some text, then the
year-only citation.
The traditional way to do that in pandoc is to use the
suppress-author
command at the end.
Doe, by contrast, found negative results [-@doe17].
So the piece of information I refer to above is that one of the
CSL
implementers (Frank Bennett) figured out how to make the above
example an author-in-text variant, so that you don't need
suppress-author, and the entire sentence is the citation.
He did this by adding an optional "infix" variable to the
citation.
I doubt that would work in every case. Consider e.g.,
;
In her original (2017) study, Doe argues that...
[...]
This is arguably an edge case, but it does relate to the
question of
whether we need two (standard and author-in-text) or three
commands
(adding the suppress-author).
I would definitely say that a way to suppress the author is
necessary. In fact, I would argue that there should also be a way
to cite just the author name, if only to make sure it's not
misspelled or written inconsistently. (I'm a regular user of
\citeauthor in BibLaTeX... ;-) But I admit that's less of a
necessity.
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Joost Kremers
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