Yes, that would work, but what I need is \cite{} as the first one, followed by \autocite{}. What Pandoc gives is \textcite{}… \autocite{}. That produces a different result in SBL (or any Chicago-based footnote) BibLaTeX style. At the moment, as far as I can tell, there's no way to get Pandoc to generate a \cite{} command, which is what I need.
For some BibLaTeX the choice between \textcite{} and \autocite{} is sufficient to cover most use cases. But for the SBL style, it's very difficult to write without access to at least \cite{} as well, and I'm wondering whether you'd consider adding some syntax to allow \cite{} to be called.
Does that make more sense?
On Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 9:27:11 AM UTC+1, John MacFarlane wrote:
I'm not sure I follow exactly. But if you want two
\autocites, rather than a \textcite and an \autocite,
can't you just do this?
^[[@Gross:1997]. Fensham blah blah [@Fensham:1982]]
+++ Lyndon Drake [Jun 10 17 01:03 ]:
> Hi,
> I realised that the question of \cite has come up before, but I have a
> case that's quite common in my field and wondered what the best
> solution is. When writing with the SBL style guide, it's not uncommon
> to want to generate a footnote like this one:
> 5. Carl D. Gross, “Is There Any Interest in Nehemiah 5,” Scand.
> J.OldTestam. 11 (1997): 270–78, doi:10.1080/ 09018329708585120. Fensham
> translates as “Everyone of you imposes a burden (loan) on his brother,”
> but gives no philological commentary on this, perhaps because he reads
> the whole episode as being primarily about slavery rather than debt
> (Fensham, The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah, 192).
> Because footnotes are so common, this approach to summarising a
> parenthetical issue is also very common. In author-date citation styles
> (which I used to use for other work) you'd get the citation in the main
> paragraph body, and then a separate footnote, and hence no problems.
> In LaTeX, the desired result can be generated by
> \cite{Gross:1997}. Fensham blah blah \autocite[192]{Fensham1982}.
> I don't know how to get the same effect from Pandoc. The problem is
> that the following:
> ^[@Gross:1997. Fensham blah blah [@Fensham:1982]]
> turns the first into \textcite{}, which in the SBL style is set as:
> Gross ("Is there…" …)
> Which is what \textcite is supposed to do. \autocite{} produces instead
> (Gross, "Is there…" …), which also seems the best option — it parallels
> what one wants with \autocite in a non-footnote paragraph.
> Is there any chance of altering the syntax slightly to allow other
> options in the conversion to LaTeX? What I'd really like is the ability
> to generate \cite{}, which would also be useful in other cases (e.g.
> one is writing a sentence in footnote text such as "For a bibliography,
> see Fensham, blah bah, 1982." where one does not want \parencite{}).
> Or if anyone can suggest a workaround I'm open to ideas.
> Best,
> Lyndon
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