[Tex/LaTex] n biblatex equivalent to natbib’s citealp command

biblatex

Currently I'm trying out biblatex but not entirely committed, so I've declared a few aliases in my preamble (which I can comment out if I compile in bibtex):

\newcommand{\citep}{\autocite}
\newcommand{\citet}{\textcite}
\newcommand{\citealp}{\cite}

(I read in another thread that \autocite is better than \parencite to use in place of \citep.)

However, \cite does not add the comma between author(s) and year that \citealp does. Do I have to declare my own command for this or is there another equivalent? I've looked in the biblatex manual (which seems to one of the few comprehensive references at the moment) but have not been able to find the answer to this.

Also, following up with a more subjective question, how close to mainstream is biblatex in the LaTeX community? I find information outside of †he manual very scarce; there is not even a Wikipedia page for biblatex…

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To simulate natbib in BibLaTeX you can use the natbib option, e.g., \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib]{biblatex}, and there is no need to redefine the standard natbib citation commands.

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[Tex/LaTex] BibLaTeX equivalent for the BibTeX style “alphadin” for the DIN 1505 Standard

More information is certainly needed to specify an alphabetic style, but the document below gives a start. It requires biber as the backend.

Here \DeclareLabelalphaTemplate specifies an alphabetic label format that largely corresponds to one of the following, ordered by precedence:

shorthand field
the label field, plus the last two digits in year
first three letters of the surname in the (truncated) labelname list when it contains only one item, plus the last two digits in year
first letter of each surname in the (truncated) labelname, plus the last two digits in year
first three letters of the entry key

If the length of labelname exceeds maxalphanames it is truncated to a list of length minalphanames. The default option settings are minalphanames=1 and maxalphanames=3. Truncation is indicated in the label via the \labelalphaothers character:

\newcommand*{\labelalphaothers}{+}
\newcommand*{\sortalphaothers}{\labelalphaothers}

These can be redefined with \renewcommand*. The \sortalphaothers variant is used only for sorting and should be redefined if \labelalphaothers uses any formatting commands. Details on \DeclareLabelalphaTemplate and \defbibenvironment can be found in the biblatex manual.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,citestyle=alphabetic,bibstyle=din]{biblatex}

% Use cite/entry key as fallback label
\DeclareLabelalphaTemplate{
  \labelelement{
    \field[final]{shorthand}
    \field{label}
    \field[strwidth=3,strside=left,ifnames=1]{labelname}
    \field[strwidth=1,strside=left]{labelname}
    \field[final,strwidth=3]{citekey}
  }
  \labelelement{
    \field[strwidth=2,strside=right]{year}    
  }
}

% Add labels to bibliography - taken from alphabetic.bbx
\DeclareFieldFormat{labelalphawidth}{\mkbibbrackets{#1}}
\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {\list
     {\printtext[labelalphawidth]{%
        \printfield{prefixnumber}%
        \printfield{labelalpha}%
        \printfield{extraalpha}}}
     {\setlength{\labelwidth}{\labelalphawidth}%
      \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}%
      \setlength{\labelsep}{\biblabelsep}%
      \addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
      \setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}%
      \renewcommand*{\makelabel}[1]{##1\hss}}
  {\endlist}
  {\item}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@online{bit:kiel,
  title = {Arbeitsgruppe Angewandte Informatik (Wirtschaftsinformatik)},
  url = {http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/bit/},
  year = 2012}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{knuth:ct,companion,aksin,cms,kant:ku,bit:kiel}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] looking for equivalent to natbib’s `\citepalias` in biblatex with active links using \hypersetup

biblatex's natbib-like commands \citepalias and \citetalias (whose definitions can be found in blx-natbib.def) can be turned into hyperlinked versions just as easily as the other commands

\makeatletter
\DeclareCiteCommand{\citetalias}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\@citealias{\thefield{entrykey}}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\citepalias}[\mkbibparens]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\@citealias{\thefield{entrykey}}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}
\makeatother

Note the \makeatletter/\makeatother commands are needed in order for the @ in \@citealias to work.

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear, natbib=true, backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\makeatletter
\DeclareCiteCommand{\citetalias}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\@citealias{\thefield{entrykey}}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\citepalias}[\mkbibparens]
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\@citealias{\thefield{entrykey}}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}
\makeatother
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\defcitealias{cicero}{DND} 

\begin{document}
As \citeauthor*{cicero} has argued  \citep[12]{cicero} it is clear that $y$. Second,  \citet[12]{cicero} also show $m$ and $x$ \citepalias[12]{cicero}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

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In your use-case though, it seems much more appropriate to use a style that can do the "ibid"-work for you, in your case probably authoryear-ibid. Then there is no need to awkwardly alias an entry to "ibid" and biblatex tries its best to avoid ambiguous "ibid" citations for you.

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