On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 5:56 AM Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
... > 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. It would help at this point if you could show an example, as I can't think of one that can't be addressed. As I replied to Richard, a citation with references to different authors can already be addressed. > 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. Adding complexity for hypotheticals has costs though. We should be able to identify a concrete case here that won't work with the change I suggest, but that we agree should be supported. Bruce
