[Tex/LaTex] Different `andothers` expressions for `\textcite` and `\parencite`

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Is it possible to have two different expressions for andothers, when using either in-text or parentheses citation with biblatex classes?

For instance, I would like to use "and others" in text (with \textcite) and "et al." in parentheses (with \parencite). Like so:

As presented by Yoon and others (2006), …

This has been previously presented (Yoon et al., 2006) …

It says in the manual (p. 103):

\textcitedelim

Similar to \multicitedelim, but used by \textcite and related commands
(§ 3.7.2). The default is a comma plus an interword space. The standard styles modify
this provisional definition to ensure that the delimiter before the final citation is the
localized term ‘and’, separated by interword spaces.

But I wasn't sure which styles were those or how they modify it.

I consulted questions and answers like Change last multicite delim only for textcite (only contrasting it to bibliography entries) and Switch conjunction in textcite, but couldn't make their solutions work for my needs.

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Starting with version 3.4 of biblatex there is the concept of delimcontexts that are used to find out in what context (\parencite, \textcite, bibliography, text is printed), we can use that to determine of we are in a \textcite

\makeatletter
\newcommand\ifintextcite{\ifdefstring{\blx@delimcontext}{textcite}}
\makeatother

There is no need for patching the commands and a new toggle here.

We can then modify the andothers bibstring depending on that test

\DefineBibliographyStrings{german}{
  andothers = {\ifintextcite{and others}{et\addabbrvspace al\adddot}}
}

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=authoryear, backend=biber, sorting=none]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\ifintextcite{\ifdefstring{\blx@delimcontext}{textcite}}
\makeatother

\DefineBibliographyStrings{german}{
  andothers = {\ifintextcite{and others}{et\addabbrvspace al\adddot}}
}


\begin{document}
   \textcite{aksin} \parencite{aksin}

   \printbibliography   
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] biblatex: uppercase in \parencite, but not in \textcite

I think the only way is the redefinition of the cite command. In the example below I defined a new macro named uppercite which formats the name via the redefinition of \mkbibnamelast:

\DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}[\mkbibparens]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
  \usebibmacro{uppercite}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\newbibmacro*{uppercite}{%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}
       {\def\mkbibnamelast##1{\MakeUppercase{##1}}\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

The complete MWE is:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{CARNAP1935,
Address = {London},
Author = {Carnap, Rudolf},
Publisher = {Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner \& Co.},
Title = {Philosophy and Logical Syntax},
Year = {1935}}

@book{CARNAP1937,
Address = {London},
Author = {Carnap, Rudolf},
Note = {Transl. Amethe Smeaton (Countess von Zeppelin)},
Publisher = {Kegan Paul},
Title = {The Logical Syntax of Language},
Year = 1937}

@book{SCHICKORE2006,
Address = {Dordrecht},
Author = {SCHICKORE, J. and STEINLE, F.},
Date-Added = {2012-07-19 08:53:43 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2013-03-09 19:03:37 +0000},
Publisher = {Kluwer Academic Pub},
Title = {Revisiting discovery and justification: historical and philosophical perspectives on the context distinction},
Volume = {14},
Year = {2006}}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=authortitle,labelnumber,natbib=true,firstinits=true,isbn=false,babel=other,language=brazilian,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\DeclareCiteCommand{\parencite}[\mkbibparens]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
  \usebibmacro{uppercite}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\newbibmacro*{uppercite}{%
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}
       {\def\mkbibnamelast##1{\MakeUppercase{##1}}\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\begin{document}
\verb+\textcite{CARNAP1937}+\quad\textcite{CARNAP1937}


\verb+\parencite{CARNAP1935}+\quad\parencite{CARNAP1935}

\verb+\parencite{SCHICKORE2006}+\quad\parencite{SCHICKORE2006}

\verb+\parencite{CARNAP1935}\parencite{SCHICKORE2006}+\parencite{CARNAP1935}\parencite{SCHICKORE2006}

\verb+\parencite{CARNAP1935,SCHICKORE2006}+\parencite{CARNAP1935,SCHICKORE2006}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex: Using “and” within textcite, “&” within parencite, “&” within bibliography

Change of the final name delimiter between \parencite and \textcite from "&" to "and" as in

(Sigfridsson & Ryde, 1998) and Sigfridsson and Ryde (1998)

is a feature of APA style. See for example https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/01/writing-in-text-citations-in-apa-style.html and https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/02/changes-parentheses-bring.html.

If you are looking for a complete implementation of APA style with biblatex, you may be interested in biblatex-apa, which when loaded as
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=apa]{biblatex}
should produce a bibliography and citations according to APA guidelines.

The answer below shows how to change the final name delimiter in the standard styles.

With the new context sensitive delimiter interface that should be as easy as redefining finalnamdelim in global scope to give an ampersand and to give "and" for textcite.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

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


\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\DeclareDelimFormat{finalnamedelim}{\addspace\&\space}
\DeclareDelimFormat[textcite]{finalnamedelim}{%
  \ifnumgreater{\value{liststop}}{2}{\finalandcomma}{}%
  \addspace\bibstring{and}\space}

\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson,companion}

\parencite{sigfridsson,companion}

\textcite{sigfridsson,companion}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

$Sigfridsson & Ryde 1998; Goossens, Mittelbach & Samarin 1994\(Sigfridsson & Ryde 1998; Goossens, Mittelbach & Samarin 1994)\Sigfridsson and Ryde (1998) and Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin (1994)\Goossens, Michel, Frank Mittelbach & Alexander Samarin (1994).\Sigfridsson, Emma & Ulf Ryde (1998).$

Edited to use the context sensitive delimiter interface. See the edit history for older versions of biblatex.

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