Re: org-cite: make 'suppress-author' a citation 'style'

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 4:09 PM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I also came across this post from 2018 from Andras ...
> >
> > https://orgmode.org/list/87in8jaywk.fsf@all.hu/
> >
> > ... which includes a link to his proposal on what we now call styles,
> > but there he calls (a la the TeX world) commands:
> >
> > https://github.com/andras-simonyi/citeproc-el/wiki/Citation-types-and-commands
> >
> > There, he includes "suppress author" as one among those.
>
> In both links, he considers stacking a style with suppress-author, for
> example "bare" and "bare + s.a".

Maybe I'm missing something, but can those not be represented with flat styles?

E.g. "bare + s.a." is simply something like "date"?

> So that would be an argument for keeping suppress-author.

The question I raised is less whether that's needed, and more whether
it's a property of the citation, or the individual items within the
citation.

Bruce