My ›house‹ citation style is an author-year system with the citations placed in foot- or endnotes rather than in the text. I'm using biblatex's \autocite
exclusively, with autocite=footnote
so I don't have to care about placing my citation commands in the right place, and to facilitate switching from my style to an inline citation style when I have to submit a text of mine to someone who demands inline citations. (That's because \autocite can be placed before or after terminal punctuation, and will move the footnote mark or brackets to the correct position later.)
Once in a while, though, I have to add a longer comment of mine to a citation. The postnote
IMHO isn't a proper place for that, especially when further citations are needed within that comment. So I'm going for a \footnote{\cite{...}...}
construction. This works fine most of the time, the only minor annoyance being I now have two different citation commands (but that's for another thread).
But when the citation starting that footnote is a duplicate of the previous one, the resulting ibid
will be printed in lowercase, in contrast to the ones that result from the \autocite
s. It's as if biblatex isn't aware of the position of that citation, thinking it's somewhere in the middle rather than at the beginning of that footnote. Any ideas on how to fix this?
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp,autocite=footnote]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
testing.\autocite{malinowski}
testing\autocite{malinowski}.
testing.\footnote{\cite{malinowski}. I'd like to add: \lipsum[1]}
\end{document}
\Cite{malinowski}
with a capital "C" at the start of sentences. Or\bibsentence\cite{malinowski}
, but why would you do that?:)
My impression is that biblatex, usually, is smart enough to take care of things like that on its own, so I what I'm trying to arrive at is a solution that makes use of biblatex's usual smartness ...which of course doesn't exclude fundamental changes to what I'm doing here. My whole\footnote{\cite{}}
construction might be a bad idea altogether -- if that's the case, please let me know.biblatex
is smart enough to track these things. It cannot tell the start of sentences without\bibsentence
or similar commands (the fact that it is able to track punctuation and capitalisation within the bibliography is because it inserts these commands itself), it would also not be able to properly capitalise "ibid" in\cite{foo}. \cite{foo}
.\bibsentence
and be done with the thing.Ibid
vs.ibid
(which it is!), it'll be able to do that in this special case as well, if provided with some help.] So, unless someone comes up with something entirely different, that's a decent workaround I guess.