Autocite near footnotes in biblatex

Question

I'm typesetting a document with references using biblatex. I'm switching back and forth between the authoryear and numeric superscript styles, and the \autocite command works wonderfully until I have a sentence which has both a citation and a footnote. Eg:

This is a referenced sentence\autocite{Author:2011}\footnote{...requiring a footnote.}.

In the numeric/superscript style, both the citation and the footnote show up as superscripts, which is confusing. If I were going completely with the numeric superscript method, I'd modify these occurrences to read something like:

This is a referenced sentence (Ref \cite{Author:2011})\footnote{...requiring a footnote.}.

But this will end up with the odd (Ref Author,2011) text when using authoryear. Is there some way to manage these occurrences automatically so that I can continue using both of these citation formats from the same document?

Answer 1

It seems that biblatex version 1.6 produce the correct behavior:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{test,
author="John Smith",
title="TITLE",
year="2009",
publisher="PUP",
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a6paper]{geometry}
\usepackage[style=numeric,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\begin{document}
This is a referenced sentence\autocite{test}\footnote{...requiring a footnote.}.
\end{document}