[biblatex] Options for \fullcite

[Thomas Arildsen]

I am building a small list of publications using \fullcite commands. Is
there a way to configure the minimum number of authors displayed without
interfering with the bibliographies for the rest of the document? I
looked for a way to supply the 'minnames' option to the \fullcite
command, but \fullcite does not seem to support options.
I would like to avoid using a \printbibliography to display the
publication list since that requires me to for example define a category
to select the publications for the list. Furthermore, the entries need
special numbering independent from the rest of the bibliographies in the
document and some of the entries should just be displayed with bullets.
Any ideas?

Thomas Arildsen
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[Philipp Lehman]

Thomas Arildsen wrote:

> I am building a small list of publications using \fullcite commands.
> Is there a way to configure the minimum number of authors displayed
> without interfering with the bibliographies for the rest of the
> document? I looked for a way to supply the 'minnames' option to the
> \fullcite command, but \fullcite does not seem to support options.

maxnames and minnames are regular LaTeX counters. Use \defcounter from
etoolbox to set them locally (\setcounter is always global). E.g.:

\begingroup
\defcounter{minnames}{3}
[\fullcite list here]
\endgroup

Or do it like this:

\newrobustcmd*{\citepub}{%
\AtNextCite{\defcounter{minnames}{3}}\fullcite}

> I would like to avoid using a \printbibliography to display the
> publication list since that requires me to for example define a
> category to select the publications for the list. Furthermore, the
> entries need special numbering independent from the rest of the
> bibliographies in the document and some of the entries should just
> be displayed with bullets. Any ideas?

You could define a special environment for the list and use the 'env'
option. You'd also need to set some kind of per-entry marker (such as
an entry option) and code in the environment's definition which
evaluates it (plus categories/keywords to define the publication list
as a subset of the global bibliography).

If it's a one-off thing, it may be easier to do it manually.

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[Thomas Arildsen]

On 16 Jun., 19:10, Philipp Lehman <devnull.1.leh...@spamgourmet.com>
wrote:

> maxnames and minnames are regular LaTeX counters. Use \defcounter from
> etoolbox to set them locally (\setcounter is always global). E.g.:
>
> \begingroup
> \defcounter{minnames}{3}
> [\fullcitelist here]
> \endgroup
>

...

> If it's a one-off thing, it may be easier to do it manually.

Thanks a lot Philipp, I didn't see your answer until now due to
vacation. I will not need this very often, so I will try the above
approach.
Thanks,

Thomas Arildsen