Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes:
> Oh dear, you're right. Where do that initial comma and space come from?
> I guess BibLaTeX inserts them automatically? Does that happen in all
> styles?
The default value is determined by \postnotedelim. So assuming spaces not
stripped \renewcommand{\postnotedelim}{} would probably work in most
cases. More fancily one could check the next space like xspace. There's
a mighty cool example using higher level functions here:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/125358/automating-processing-of-trailing-punctuation-if-any-for-hyperlinks
> From what I can see, Pandoc does not implicitly insert punctuation like
> this:
>
> As @Fenner2012a [, cf. sec. 2] showed ...
>
> renders as
>
> As Fenner (2012, cf. sec. 2) showed ...
I prefer the biblatex behavior then.
> Can you turn off the automatic addition of commas in BibLaTeX by setting
> something in the preamble?
Preamble or using \AtNextCite
> If so, would that be the right solution here? It might be easier to
> remove punctuation on the LaTeX side than to get other backends to
> duplicate LaTeX's implicit punctuating behavior.
Perhaps. Either looks like the famous can of worms. I guess we should
promote the option above in the manual and that's it.
--
However beautiful the theory, you should occasionally look at the evidence
