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How would I go about getting footcite citations to be displayed on the same line, for instance separated by a semicolon? I would like the footnotes to display something like:

$^{1}$Smith, The Title; $^{2}$Smith2, The Title2

Here is a minimal example:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{test,
  author="John Smith",
  title="The title",
  year=1099,
  publisher="nobody",  
}
@book{test2,
  author="John Smith2",
  title="The title2",
  year=10992,
  publisher="nobody",  
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authortitle]{biblatex}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \begin{itemize}
  \item Text \footcite{test}
  \item Text2 \footcite{test2}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Which gives me:

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    Normally one would say \usepackage[para]{footmisc}, but according to https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/69292/35864 that doesn't work... – moewe Aug 03 '18 at 08:23

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For other documentclasses this problem can be solved with the footmisc package. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, you can not use both beamer and the footmisc package together, because beamer has its own \footnote definition.

Rather we can simply do a workaround and cite the works in a normal footnote:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{test,
  author="John Smith",
  title="The title",
  year=1099,
  publisher="nobody",  
}
@book{test2,
  author="John Smith2",
  title="The title2",
  year=10992,
  publisher="nobody",  
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authortitle]{biblatex}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \begin{itemize}
  \item Text \footnotemark
  \item Text2 \footnotemark
  \setcounter{footnote}{1} 
  \footnotetext{\cite{test}, \textsuperscript{2}\cite{test2}} 
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

from this you get

enter image description here

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  • @samcarter I thought that solution was the not the one. But undeleted it. As a side note, I never knew one can see the deleted answer :D – Raaja_is_at_topanswers.xyz Aug 03 '18 at 12:47
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    +1 I think this workaround is the best one can get without seriously redefining things. The missing title in your original image might be caused by not running biber? -- however in principle your code works fine and I updated the image (With enough reputation one is allowed to see deleted posts, so just keep posting nice answers and you'll see them too :) – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Aug 03 '18 at 12:50
  • @samcarter Nice, good to know. I think that was the biber issue --> yes I did not run it. Still a beginner. – Raaja_is_at_topanswers.xyz Aug 03 '18 at 12:53
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    I reformulated the first paragraph a bit, because \footcite is from the biblatex package and not from footmisc. Please feel free to undo the edit. – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Aug 03 '18 at 12:56
  • @samcarter that is completely fine! No issues. The story looks more simple now. – Raaja_is_at_topanswers.xyz Aug 03 '18 at 12:56
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    Is there any way to do it automatically, not with manual imitation of footnotes? – Júda Ronén Jan 27 '19 at 01:01
  • @ Juda Ronen if you have a follow-up question, please post it as new instead. – Raaja_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jan 27 '19 at 06:38
  • Using this with footfullcite instead of cite returns a parenthesis ( ) surrounding the cite. Does anyone know why? If using footfullcite directly no parenthesis appears (also the parenthesis for the year is now changed for a square bracket). If i use cite as in the code here then it just returns the number of the citation, not the citation itself. – M.O. Apr 10 '19 at 20:51