Document Classes ⇒ BibLaTeX: Verbose citation style but authoryear as shortcite

[asblom]

Hi,

I'm trying to learn BibLaTeX but I have some problems.

I would like to use the verbose style but instead of using the authortitle citation as the "short cite" entry (when you cite to a key at the second time) I would prefer if it used a entry consisting of the autor(s) and the year of the key.

Also I got some entries who doesn't have an author, so if that is the case I would like BibLaTeX to cite to the title and year instead.

So this is the pseudocode for the short cite:

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if author==true
  citation=author (year)
else %I.e. no author exist
  citation=title (year)
endif

Kind regards,
Filip

[asblom]

I solved it myself after some hacking. I must say that I really like Biblatex.

I solved it by doing my own style based on verbose.

First I changed the existing cite command to:

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\newbibmacro*{cite}{%
  \ifciteseen
    {\iffieldundef{shorthand}
       {\ifnameundef{author}{\usebibmacro{cite:title}}{\usebibmacro{cite:name}}%
        \usebibmacro{cite:year}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:full}}}

and then added the macro

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\newbibmacro*{cite:year}{%
  \printfield{year}%
  \setunit*{\addcomma\space}}

So great!


f