Re: question on suppress-author citation variant

[Bastien DUMONT <bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>]

> I guess you use note-based styles?

Yes!

> Why do you have those as part of the same citation, as opposed to
> putting that content in a note, with two distinct citations?

The problem is that Pandoc would assign the "author in text" output
method to both citations, which can result in unwanted behaviour in
some cases. Maybe this doesn't apply to Org-mode.

> Does it make sense to treat "suppress author" differently than other
> citation variant; like, say, author-in-text (in natbib, \citet)?

I just saw today something like "following Andrews' demonstration
(2008),...", so yes, it can be viewed as an additional property.

> Are these really the properties that should attach to the citation
> items, rather than the citation overall?

From a purely technical point of view, it depends on whether two
distinct citations can be placed inside a footnote. From a conceptual
point of view, I would say that author suppression is "micro-context-
dependant", so yes, but it is more debatable.