On Mon, Apr 26 2021, Denis Maier wrote: > [...] Interestingly, I > couldn't find an easy way to get "Doe (2021, p.34; see also Smith 2020) > ... argues". You'd probably have to resort to lower level commands such > as \citeauthor in combination with other commands. > \citeauthor{doe} \parencites*[34]{doe}{smith}
Actually, that won't print the author name of =smith=. AFAIK If you want to suppress the author in the first citation but not in the second, you need to be even more low-level: \citeauthor{Chomsky1995} (\cite*[34]{Chomsky1995}, \cite{Kayne1994}) At least that's the only way I've been able to find. IOW it seems that in biblatex, suppress-author (obtained by the asterisk following the command) is a property of the citation command, even if it includes multiple citations. OTOH there are real cases (I have written references such as the example here myself) where you want it to be a property of the individual citation. The thing about biblatex is that it offers low-level commands that allow you to create unusual citations (my default LaTeX header contains three definitions of citation commands that biblatex doesn't provide but which I use quite a lot). So I would argue that it's better to keep the syntax =-@key=, just to keep the system flexible in case the need arises. -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments