Using biblatex, the \citeauthor no longer is hyperlinked by default (as done in natbib). I am currently desperately looking for a way to make it a hyperlink … any suggestion welcome
[Tex/LaTex] hyperlinking author names in biblatex when using \citeauthor
biblatexhyperref
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Using etoolbox you can patch natbib's internal author-year citation command so that it hyperlinks only the year whenever both the year and name are included in the citation label. The code below demonstrates patches for natbib.sty, version 2010/09/13 8.31b.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% Patch case where name and year are separated by aysep
\patchcmd{\NAT@citex}
{\@citea\NAT@hyper@{%
\NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}%
\hyper@natlinkbreak{\NAT@aysep\NAT@spacechar}{\@citeb\@extra@b@citeb}%
\NAT@date}}
{\@citea\NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}%
\NAT@aysep\NAT@spacechar\NAT@hyper@{\NAT@date}}{}{}
% Patch case where name and year are separated by opening bracket
\patchcmd{\NAT@citex}
{\@citea\NAT@hyper@{%
\NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}%
\hyper@natlinkbreak{\NAT@spacechar\NAT@@open\if*#1*\else#1\NAT@spacechar\fi}%
{\@citeb\@extra@b@citeb}%
\NAT@date}}
{\@citea\NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}%
\NAT@spacechar\NAT@@open\if*#1*\else#1\NAT@spacechar\fi\NAT@hyper@{\NAT@date}}
{}{}
\makeatother
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{companion,
author = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and Samarin, Alexander},
title = {The LaTeX Companion},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
location = {Reading, Mass.},
year = {1994}}
@book{adams:life,
title = {Life, the Universe and Everything},
author = {Adams, Douglas},
series = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
year = {1980}}
@book{adams:rest,
title = {The Restaurant at the End of the Universe},
author = {Douglas Adams},
series = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
year = {1980}}
\end{filecontents}
\newcommand{\cmd}[1]{\textbackslash\texttt{#1}}
\defcitealias{companion}{GMS}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\cmd{citet}: \citet[1--10]{companion,adams:rest,adams:life} \\
\cmd{cite}: \cite[e.g.][100]{adams:life}; \cite{adams:rest} \\
\cmd{citep}: \citep[e.g.][1--10]{adams:rest,adams:life} \\
\cmd{citetext}; \cmd{citealp}:
\citetext{see \citealp[10]{adams:rest}; or even better \citealp{adams:life}} \\
\cmd{citeauthor}, \cmd{citeauthor*}: \citeauthor{adams:life}; \citeauthor*{companion} \\
\cmd{citeyear}, \cmd{citeyearpar}: \citeyear{adams:life}; \citeyearpar{adams:rest} \\
\cmd{citetalias}, \cmd{citepalias}: \citetalias{companion}; \citepalias{companion} \\
\cmd{citenum}: \citenum{adams:life,adams:rest}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
Both of these citations commands are defined in biblatex.def. To add links, you can redefine them in your document preamble or configuration file. A linked variant of \citeauthor is already addressed in this previous question. The \citetitle command can be revised similarly, although note that you may wish to swap the order of the bibhyperref and citetitle formats.
\DeclareCiteCommand{\citetitle}
{\boolfalse{citetracker}%
\boolfalse{pagetracker}%
\usebibmacro{prenote}}
{\ifciteindex
{\indexfield{indextitle}}
{}%
\printtext[bibhyperref]{\printfield[citetitle]{labeltitle}}}
{\multicitedelim}
{\usebibmacro{postnote}}
Best Answer
Just apply the
bibhyperrefformat in the citation command:Definitions for
bibhyperrefand\citeauthorcan be found inbiblatex.def.