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

[Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com> writes:

>> e.g. you can write
>>
>> Smith claims foo [(cite): -@Smith2019; -@Smith2020; see also @Jones2018].
>>
>> to render
>>
>> Smith claims foo (2019; 2020; see also Jones 2018).

> You identified the same case Andras and I discussed just above.
>
> I think the solution is simple; with the updated syntax:
>
> [cite/-:@Smith2019;@Smith2020; see also @Jones2018].
>
> So the rule is (and this is for the processor to worry about, of
> course, not org), when a suppress-author style is specified, the
> suppression only applies to the author of the first citation
> item/reference. That would generate the output you noted.

I think I see what you mean after parsing this a few times, but I would
rephrase the rule, since the way you phrased it initially seemed to
contradict the example. The point of my example was that author
suppression should also apply to the author of the *second* reference in
the list, though that happens to be the same author as the author of the
first item. So maybe the rule is more like: "when a suppress-author
style is specified, the suppression only applies to the initial segment
of citation items/references that have the same author as the first
reference"?

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Best,
Richard