[biblatex] How to define a customized \citeauthor command?

[Denis Bitouzé]

Hello,

I'd like to define my own \citeauthor in order to make it print not
only:

Last Name 1[, Last Name 2...]

but:

FirstName1 LastName1[, FirstName2 LastName2...]

I tried to add in my biblatex.cfg:

\DeclareCiteCommand{\myciteauthor}
{\boolfalse{citetracker}%
\boolfalse{pagetracker}%
\usebibmacro{prenote}}
{\ifciteindex
{\indexnames{first-last}}
{}%
\printnames{first-last}}
{\multicitedelim}
{\usebibmacro{postnote}}

But \myciteauthor{key} prints nothing

Thanks in anticipation for any workaround.
--
Denis

[Philipp Lehman]

Denis Bitouzé wrote:

> \printnames{first-last}

This will try to print the "first-last" name list. Obviously, there is
no such field in any entry. Try this:

\printnames[first-last]{labelname}

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[Herbert Voss]

Am 02.12.2010 16:38, schrieb Denis Bitouzé:

> I'd like to define my own \citeauthor in order to make it print not
> only:
>

prints _all_ authors

\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,
block=none,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\DeclareCiteCommand*{\citeauthor}
{\defcounter{maxnames}{99}%
\defcounter{minnames}{99}%
\defcounter{uniquename}{2}%

\boolfalse{citetracker}%
\boolfalse{pagetracker}%
\usebibmacro{prenote}}

{\ifciteindex{\indexnames{labelname}}{}%
\printnames{labelname}}
{\multicitedelim}
{\usebibmacro{postnote}}
\bibliography{examples}
\begin{document}

foo~\citeauthor*{murray}; bar~\citeauthor*{padhye};

\printbibliography%[maxnames=99]
\end{document}

Herbert

[Denis Bitouzé]

Le jeudi 02/12/10 à 17h30,
Herbert Voss <Herber...@FU-Berlin.de> a écrit :

> prints _all_ authors
>
> [...]

Thanks Herbert.
--
Denis

[Denis Bitouzé]

Le jeudi 02/12/10 à 17h29,
Philipp Lehman <devnull....@spamgourmet.com> a écrit :

> This will try to print the "first-last" name list. Obviously, there
> is no such field in any entry. Try this:
>
> \printnames[first-last]{labelname}

It works, but I also understood something: thanks Philipp!
--
Denis

[Philipp Lehman]

Denis Bitouzé wrote:

>> \printnames[first-last]{labelname}
>
> It works, but I also understood something: thanks Philipp!

BTW, if you want to force printing of the full list (ignoring
maxnames):

\printnames[first-last][-\value{listtotal}]{labelname}