biblatexspacing
I'm using \fullcite to produce in-margin-note citations as per my older question. I've almost got the behavior I want, but biblatex's \fullcite command inserts a leading indent before the citation starts:
I'm using the numeric biblatex style. It's hard to generate a minimal example that generates this text because it relies on a recent version of tufte-latex, but refer to tufte-latex Issue 60.
Using a modified tufte-common.def file you can create tufte-latex documents with biblatex. A limitation is that tufte-latex modifies footnotes. So biblatex features such as \smartcite inside footnotes and footnote detection with \iffootnote may not work as intended. Most of this has already been covered in another post.
As for the citation style, you can get most of the way there with some edits to the textcite bibliography macro and \smartcite. Both of these are defined in numeric.cbx.
\documentclass[nobib]{tufte-handout}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=numeric,citetracker=true,autocite=footnote]{biblatex}
\makeatletter
% If not seen, avoid compact lists and print full citation
\renewbibmacro*{textcite}{%
\ifciteseen
{}
{\clearfield{namehash}}%
\iffieldequals{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}
{\multicitedelim}
{\cbx@tempa
\ifciteseen
{\ifnameundef{labelname}
{\printfield[citetitle]{labeltitle}}
{\printnames{labelname}}}
{\usedriver
{\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}%
\clearfield{pages}%
\clearfield{pagetotal}}
{\thefield{entrytype}}}%
\addspace\bibopenbracket}%
\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{1}
{\usebibmacro{prenote}}
{}%
\usebibmacro{cite}%
\savefield{namehash}{\cbx@lasthash}%
\gdef\cbx@tempa{\bibclosebracket\multicitedelim}}
% Make \smartcite like \textcite
\DeclareCiteCommand{\smartcite}[\iffootnote\mkbibbrackets\mkbibfootnote]
{\let\cbx@tempa=\empty
\undef\cbx@lasthash}
{\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
\usebibmacro{textcite}}
{}
{\usebibmacro{postnote}%
\bibclosebracket}
\makeatother
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
One of the most prominent and distinctive features of this style is the
extensive use of sidenotes \autocites(See)()[10--15]{knuth:ct:a}[10]{companion}.
There is a wide margin to provide ample room for sidenotes and small figures
\autocite{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b}. Any footnotes will automatically be converted to
sidenotes.\footnote{Results from \textcite{knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b,companion} showed
that...}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Some notes:
autocite=footnote option setting makes \autocite use \smartcite as its backend citation command.\ifciteseen test needs citation tracking enabled. In the example global tracking is enabled via citetracker=true. Alternative settings are possible. Refer to the manual for details.\usedriver. The first argument to this command allows you to hook code in before printing. This is a good place to suppress fields with \clearfield and friends. In the example, I suppress the pages and pagetotal fields to avoid confusion with page references in postnotes.numeric, \textcite generates compact citation lists. This complicates printing full citations. The edits to textcite take an easy way out by simply replacing the labelname or labeltitle with the full citation.numeric style isn't particularly suited to this customization. Refer to the verbose style or any of its variants for some better alternatives.Style-related content in the biblatex manual doesn't necessarily apply to contributed styles. One example is biblatex-chicago's \smartcite command. It doesn't generate parenthetical citations.
The notes style is verbose; you get full citation labels on the first citation. Version 1.7 of biblatex introduced \textcite and friends to all its verbose styles. To incorporate similar commands into biblatex-chicago you can adapt definitions from verbose.cbx.
\makeatletter
\DeclareCiteCommand{\textcite}[\cbx@textcite\cbx@textcite@i]
{\boolfalse{citetracker}%
\gdef\cbx@savedkeys{}}
{\printnames{labelname}%
\xappto\cbx@savedkeys{\thefield{entrykey},}}
{\multinamedelim}
{\protected@xappto\cbx@savedcites{%
[\thefield{prenote}][\thefield{postnote}]{\cbx@savedkeys}}}
\DeclareMultiCiteCommand{\textcites}[\cbx@textcite\cbx@textcites@i]
{\textcite}{\multinamedelim}
\newrobustcmd{\cbx@textcite}[2]{\def\cbx@savedcites{#1}#2\cbx@savedcites}
\newrobustcmd{\cbx@textcite@i}{\iffootnote{\addspace\parencite}{\footcite}}
\newrobustcmd{\cbx@textcites@i}{\iffootnote{\addspace\parencites}{\footcites}}
\makeatother
Here citation command arguments are processed twice. The first pass generates output like \citeauthor. The second pass generates a footnote or parenthetical citation. I've tailored the code to handle citations inside footnotes and work with \parencite, \footcite and friends from notes.
The resulting commands don't move punctuation for you. To incorporate this feature into \textcite, you can use a low-level definition.
Best Answer
Okay, so the answer involves my misinterpretations of how the
\AtEveryCiteKeydefinition works. I had the following markup in my document, which I had formatted to be clear (to my C/Java/Ruby-writing programmer's mind) with newlines and indents:LaTeX was interpreting the newlines as whitespace separated by (non-printing) characters, and adding four spaces to the beginning of every
\fullcite!I changed the markup to:
And now all is well.