Re: org-cite: make 'suppress-author' a citation 'style'

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 5:56 AM Joost Kremers <joostkremers@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