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I'm using \supercite with biblatex for a numeric superscripted citation style. Prenotes and postnotes are, as per the manual, discarded. Is there any simple way to add them back in?

output of below code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@book{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
@book{B02,
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{test.bib}
\begin{document}
Text\supercite[prenote][postnote]{A01,B02}
\end{document}
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Just take the definition of \supercite from your .cbx file and add the calls to the relevant bibmacros back in.

For numeric (which is used if no explicit style is given) we need

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\supercite}[\mkbibsuperscript]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite}}
  {\supercitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
Text\supercite[prenote][postnote]{sigfridsson,worman}
\end{document}

"Text" followed by superscript "prenote 1,2, postnote"

As shown in the output the risk is that the notes could visually overwhelm the small citation numbers, on the other hand there is a risk that at small font sizes the notes would be hard to read.

For numeric-comp as requested in the comments you would need

\DeclareCiteCommand{\supercite}[\mkbibsuperscript]
  {\usebibmacro{cite:init}%
   \let\multicitedelim=\supercitedelim
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \usebibmacro{cite:comp}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{cite:dump}%
   \usebibmacro{postnote}}
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  • Thanks. It seems to be a little more complicated with my default numeric-comp but I numeric will do for this document. – Chris H Feb 11 at 16:37
  • @ChrisH Have a look at the edit, please. For MWEs with biblatex it often makes sense to keep the style and not simplify it down to the default style=numeric. Especially when the question is about the output and behaviour of specific \cite... commands. – moewe Feb 11 at 16:42
  • Further thanks. It does sound like my MWE was a little too M. I've played around with the more accessible parts of biblatex but never had to get far enough in to have even seen a .cbx file so I've learnt something about the structure as well. – Chris H Feb 11 at 16:47
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    @ChrisH Since it is sometimes hard to say from the outset whether or not the style used is relevant to the question (or the answer) and adding (at least a standard) style usually does not complicate the issue much further, I recommend to err on the side of including the style in an MWE. If the style does not matter for the answer it is usually easily excluded, but if it does matter and is not known, then one has to guess. – moewe Feb 11 at 16:52

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