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Re: [O] Citations, continued


From: John Kitchin
Subject: Re: [O] Citations, continued
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:03:43 -0800

Rasmus writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Another option is to mimic custom links, if that's what you're thinking
>> of, which means to store every user-defined keyword in a variable and
>> build a regexp out of it. I dislike it even more because the document is
>> not portable anymore, as it requires you to share your custom keywords.
>
> So, the (opinionated) useful defaults in biblatex are:
>     cite(s), parencite(s), footcite(s), texcite(s), fullcite,
>     footfullcite, nocite
>
> Citation types for extracting parts:
>      citeauthor, citetitle, citeyear, citedate, citeurl,

If citenum was also in that list, then I agree. It is not that likely
there is little need for custom style.

>
> From natbib:
>     citet (== textcite), citep (== parencite).
>
> Keys I don't care about, since they are quite biblatex specific:
>     smartcite, autocide, parentcite*, uppercase variants. *volcites(s)
>     (any objections?)
None from me.

>
> In natbib:
>    citealt, citalp, starred variants
>
> So that's 17 support keys and two aliases.  I guess this would deter most
> authors from needing custom styles.
>
>> Note that it rules out colons from KEY syntax (but we can use another
>> less common character, e.g. "|").
>
> The default bibtex.el style generates keys like "%A%y:%t", so I think ":"
> is no good, appealing as it is.
>
> —Rasmus
>
>
> Footnotes:
> ¹   which is just
>     [cite: common pre; pre1 @k1 post1; ⋯; preN @kN postN;  common post]

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