biblatex-publist makes me coauthor of entries I'm not author of

Question

When writing my cv, I wanna include some bibentries for my own papers, but also some other describing some courses I've taken. My strategy is to put those courses taken in a special class (e.g. @book) and print separate bibliographies as follows:

\documentclass{article}

\title{Curriculm Vitae}
\author{R. Reventlov Giskard}

\usepackage%
    [backend=biber,%
    style=publist]% 
    {biblatex}

\plauthorname[R. Giskard]{Reventlov}

\addbibresource{articles.bib}
\addbibresource{courses.bib}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\nocite{*}

%   MY ARTICLES
\printbibliography[title={Published Articles}, type=article]


%   COURSES [BOOKS] BY OTHERS
\printbibliography[title={Courses Taken}, type=book]

\end{document}

The \printbibliography commands should print something like:

Published Articles

1 2006 (with R. Daneel Olivaw). "The Three Laws of Robotics Revisited".

2 2005. "The Zeroth Law of Robotics".

Courses Taken

3 2004 Susan Calvin. Practical Aspects of Robotics.

4 2003 Han Fastolfe and Vasilia Fastolfe. How to read and influence the emotions of humans and robots.

Instead, they fourth entry is mistakenly printed as follows:

4 2003 (with Han Fastolfe and Vasilia Fastolfe). How to read and influence the emotions of humans and robots.

How can I prevent biblatex-publist from implicitly making me coauthor of this fourth entry (or of all @book entries for that matter)?

Note 1

In my full code I declare a special entry type @course as follows:

\DeclareBibliographyAlias{course}{book}

and then call:

\printbibliography[title={Courses Taken}, type=course]

In both cases, the error persists.

Note 2

The output without style=publist would be something like:

Published Articles

1 R. Reventlov Giskard and R. Daneel Olivaw (2006). "The Three Laws of Robotics Revisited".

2 R. Reventlov Giskard (2005). "The Zeroth Law of Robotics".

Courses Taken

3 Susan Calvin (2004). Practical Aspects of Robotics.

4 Han Fastolfe and Vasilia Fastolfe (2003). How to read and influence the emotions of humans and robots.

OP Edit 1

I have tested the following version of the code provided by @moewe (the only changes being removing the "R." from "R. Giskard Reventlov" and adding "Susan Calvin" as coauthor of "appleby"): txt.do/1fc7k

However, the output is:

Notice that the co-authorship that matters here is that of the "appleby" entry. It isn't supposed to say "(with ...)" because Giskard (the pluauthorname) is not coauthor in the entry "appleby".

Here's the log file, in case it is of interest: txt.do/1fcz2

OP Edit 2

After having installed a vanilla TeX Live, as recommended in @moewe's comment to his answer, we seem to be one step away from solving the issue. The same input returns the following output:

(Highlights are mine.)

Here is the log file: txt.do/1fg0o

Just in case, I wouldn't mind loosing the et al feature since I'm setting maxnames=99.

Answer 1

Update As mentioned by JSpitzm, the developer of biblatex-publist, version 1.20 with a fix for this slightly counter-intuitive behaviour is out now.

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Previously (< v1.20) biblatex-publist assumed you are the co-author of the works listed. If I understand all the work the style does the information whether or not a \plauthorname is present in a name is available, we just need to make use of it.

The trick is to check nonplauthors/nonpleditors against listtotal. If they are equal \plauthorname is not amongst the authors/editors. In that case we avoid the "with" and the parentheses.

The entire definition of bpl:handlenames is quite full on, here we only added the two \ifthenelse{\value{nonpl#1s}=\value{listtotal}} tests to the original definition from publist.bbx.

The code below requires biblatex-publist v.1.18 (2020/07/31). There may not be an error with older versions, but the output is probably not going to be as expected.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage%
    [backend=biber,%
    style=publist]% 
    {biblatex}

\plauthorname[Giskard]{Reventlov}

\makeatletter
\renewbibmacro{bpl:handlenames}[1][author]{%
    \bpl@ifplauthor{\namepartgiven}{\namepartprefix}{\namepartfamily}%
       {\global\toggletrue{isplauthor}\stepcounter{pl#1}}%
       {\global\togglefalse{isplauthor}}%
    %
    % Calculate real list stop
    \ifnumless{\value{liststop}}{\value{maxnames}}
         {\setcounter{realliststop}{\theliststop}}
         {\setcounter{realliststop}{\value{minnames}}}%
    %
    % First case: plauthorhandling=highlight
    \if@hlauthor%
        % Highlight plauthor(s)
        \usebibmacro{bpl:omissiondelim}[#1]%
        \iftoggle{isplauthor}{%
            \plauthorhl{%
                \if@givenfirst% given name first
                    \ifgiveninits
                        {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiveni}{}{\namepartgiveni\addspace}}%
                        {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiven}{}{\namepartgiven\addspace}}%
                    \ifdefvoid{\namepartprefix}%
                        {}%
                        {\namepartprefix\addspace}%
                    \namepartfamily%
                \else% family name first
                    \ifdefvoid{\namepartprefix}%
                        {}%
                        {\namepartprefix\addspace}%
                    \namepartfamily%
                    \ifgiveninits
                        {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiveni}{}{\addcomma\addspace\namepartgiveni\addspace}}%
                        {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiven}{}{\addcomma\addspace\namepartgiven\isdot\addspace}}%
                \fi
            }%
            \ifnumequal{\value{listcount}}{\value{liststop}}{}{\usebibmacro{name:andothers}}%
        }{%
           \ifnumgreater{\value{listcount}}{\value{realliststop}}{}{%
             \if@givenfirst% given name first
                 \ifgiveninits
                     {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiveni}{}{\namepartgiveni\addspace}}%
                     {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiven}{}{\namepartgiven\addspace}}%
                 \ifdefvoid{\namepartprefix}%
                     {}%
                     {\namepartprefix\addspace}%
                 \namepartfamily%
             \else% family name first
                 \ifdefvoid{\namepartprefix}%
                       {}%
                       {\namepartprefix\addspace}%
                 \namepartfamily%
                 \ifgiveninits
                    {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiveni}{}{\addcomma\addspace\namepartgiveni\addspace}}%
                    {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiven}{}{\addcomma\addspace\namepartgiven\isdot\addspace}}%
             \fi
           }%
           \usebibmacro{name:andothers}%
        }%
    %
    % Second case: plauthorhandling=omit
    \else% \if@hlauthor false
        \ifthenelse{\value{listcount}=1}%
            {\ifthenelse{\value{nonpl#1s}>0}%
                 {\ifthenelse{\value{pl#1s}=0}
                    {}
                    {\bibopenparen\bibstring{with}\addspace}}%
                 {}%
             \iftoggle{isplauthor}%
                 {\global\toggletrue{plauthorprecedes}}%
                 {\global\togglefalse{plauthorprecedes}}%
            }%
            {}%
        % Exclude omitted author
        \iftoggle{isplauthor}%
            {% <- TRUE condition
              \global\toggletrue{hadplauthor}%
            }% <- end TRUE condition
            {% <- FALSE condition
              \stepcounter{nonpl#1}%
              \ifthenelse{\value{listcount}=1}%
                   {\global\togglefalse{hadplauthor}}%
                   {%
                     \iftoggle{plauthorprecedes}%
                         {}%
                         {%
                           \ifnumgreater{\value{listcount}}{\value{realliststop}}{}{%
                              \ifnumless{\value{nonpl#1}}{\value{nonpl#1s}}%
                                 {\multinamedelim}%
                                 {\printdelim[#1]{bplfinalnamedelim}}%
                            }%
                         }%
                   }%
             \ifnumgreater{\value{listcount}}{\value{realliststop}}{}{%
              \ifgiveninits
                  {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiveni}{}{\namepartgiveni\addspace}}%
                  {\ifdefvoid{\namepartgiven}{}{\namepartgiven\addspace}}%
              \ifdefvoid{\namepartprefix}{}{\namepartprefix\addspace}%
              \global\togglefalse{plauthorprecedes}%
              \namepartfamily%
             }%
            }% <- end FALSE condition
        %
        \usebibmacro{name:andothers}%
        \ifthenelse{\value{nonpl#1s}>0\AND\value{listcount}=\value{liststop}}%
            {\ifthenelse{\value{pl#1s}=0}
               {}
               {\unspace\bibcloseparen}}%
            {}%
    \fi% end of \if@hlauthor else condition
}
\makeatother

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{appleby,
  author  = {Humphrey Appleby},
  title   = {On the Importance of the Civil Service},
  date    = {2001},
}
@book{bppleby,
  author  = {Humphrey Bppleby and Someone Else},
  title   = {On the Importance of the Civil Service},
  date    = {2002},
}
@book{cppleby,
  author  = {Humphrey Cppleby and Someone Else and A. Third Person},
  title   = {On the Importance of the Civil Service},
  date    = {2003},
}
@article{reventlov:2,
  author  = {Giskard Reventlov and Someone Else},
  title   = {Turtles},
  date    = {2012},
}
@article{reventlov:1,
  author  = {Giskard Reventlov},
  title   = {Turtles},
  date    = {2011},
}
@article{reventlov:3,
  author  = {Giskard Reventlov and Ann Uthor and Bann Tuthor},
  title   = {Turtles},
  date    = {2013},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\nocite{*}

%   MY ARTICLES
\printbibliography[title={Published Articles}, type=article]

%   COURSES [BOOKS] BY OTHERS
\printbibliography[title={Courses Taken}, type=book]
\end{document}

Answer 2

This is not a case biblatex-publist is currently prepared for. However, it strikes me you could (mis-)use the @review type for this type of task, which does not consider plauthor. Or you define a new driver @course on the base of @review.

For the usage of @review, please refer to the manual.