supercite and footnote

Question

I use a \newcommand combining supercite and footfullcite to have a bibliography reference in footnote and the same in the bibliography. I can't merge the numbers of the citation.

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage{geometry} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}    
\usepackage[autopunct=true,giveninits=true,autocite=superscript,backend=bibtex,sorting=none, sortlocale=auto,notetype=foot+end,style=numeric-comp,maxnames=10,maxbibnames=100,doi=true, isbn=true,url=false,eprint=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{library.bib} 
\usepackage{csquotes}
\newcommand{\PresCite}[1]{\autocite{#1} \footfullcite{#1}}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, frenchlinks=true, linkcolor=black,filecolor=magenta,urlcolor=blue, citecolor=gray]{hyperref}
\urlstyle{same}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
bla bla bla \PresCite{Toto1900,Toto1901,Toto1902}
\printbibliography

\end{document}

The result is:

1. in text

   

2. in footnote

   

3. in bibliography

   

What I would like:

1. in text

   

2. in footnote

   

3. in Bibliography

   

Answer 1

Since the footnote marker is already provided by \autocite, a possible solution is to avoid \footfullcite and instead use a footnote without a marker, and use \fullcite inside that footnote. A footnote without a marker can be made following for example Supressing the footnote number, which creates a hyperref warning about an empty anchor, which can be suppressed following avoiding hyperref warning: Ignoring empty anchor.

Normally \fullcite does not print the cite label (similar to \footfullcite) but you can add the number by redefining the \fullcite command as in Adding numbering/label of fullcite entries in text?. In the code below instead of redefining \fullcite a new macro \myfullcite is created so you can still use the original \fullcite in other places.

The redefinition of the macro also allows you to insert newlines after each citation in case of multiple citations, to simulate the appearance of multiple footnotes.

All that is left is some spacing issues in making the bibliography entries align in the footnote (with eachother and with regular footnotes). The first entry can be corrected with a negative -1em at the start of the footnote, while other lines can be corrected with negative space inside of \myfullcite.

Putting everything together:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage[height=5cm]{geometry} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}    
\usepackage[autopunct=true,giveninits=true,autocite=superscript,backend=bibtex,sorting=none, sortlocale=auto,notetype=foot+end,style=numeric-comp,maxnames=10,maxbibnames=100,doi=true, isbn=true,url=false,eprint=true]{biblatex}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\addbibresource{library.bib} 
\usepackage{csquotes}
\makeatletter
\def\blfootnote{\xdef@thefnmark{}@footnotetext}
\makeatother
\DeclareCiteCommand{\myfullcite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
   {{\printtext[labelnumberwidth]{% New
        \printfield{prefixnumber}% New
        \printfield{labelnumber}}} % New
  \usedriver
     {\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}}
     {\thefield{entrytype}}}
  {\par\hspace{-1em}}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}
\newcommand{\PresCite}[1]{%
\autocite{#1}%
\begin{NoHyper}%
\blfootnote{\hspace{-1em}\myfullcite{#1}}%
\end{NoHyper}
}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, frenchlinks=true, linkcolor=black,filecolor=magenta,urlcolor=blue, citecolor=gray]{hyperref}
\urlstyle{same}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
regular cite \cite{Toto1899}
bla bla bla \PresCite{Toto1900,Toto1901,Toto1902}
normal\footnote{normal footnote} footnotes\footnote{second footnote}
just one \PresCite{Toto1899}
and again \PresCite{Toto1899}
\printbibliography

\end{document}

Result (page size reduced to 5cm with geometry for the screenshot):

Note that the citations are printed as [1] etc. and not as 1., to differentiate them from normal footnotes. If you don't want this then you can do the redefinition as follows:

\DeclareCiteCommand{\myfullcite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}}
   {{   \printfield{prefixnumber}% New
        \printfield{labelnumber}.} % New
   \usedriver
     {\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}}
     {\thefield{entrytype}}}
  {\par\hspace{-0.85em}}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

Note the slightly reduced negative space of 0.85em instead of 1em.

Note also that repeated \PresCite commands for the same reference create repeated footnotes, with the same number, as this number is taken from the reference list and not from the footnote counter as in \footfullcite.

---

Alternatively, if you just want compressed footnotes and it is not a prerequisite that the numbers must correspond to the bibliography numbering, then you can use the footnoterange package (see Compressing consecutive footnote marks) and create the (range of) footnotes inside of \DeclareCiteCommand by including the footnoterange environment in the pre- and post-code of the cite command and the \footnote commands in the loopcode (see the manual of BibLaTeX on page 180).

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage[height=5cm]{geometry} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}    
\usepackage[autopunct=true,giveninits=true,autocite=superscript,backend=bibtex,sorting=none, sortlocale=auto,notetype=foot+end,style=numeric-comp,maxnames=10,maxbibnames=100,doi=true, isbn=true,url=false,eprint=true]{biblatex}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{footnoterange}
\addbibresource{library.bib} 
\usepackage{csquotes}
\DeclareCiteCommand{\PresCite}
  {\usebibmacro{prenote}\begin{footnoterange}}
   {\footnote{\usedriver{\DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{default}}
     {\thefield{entrytype}}}}
  {}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}\end{footnoterange}}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, frenchlinks=true, linkcolor=black,filecolor=magenta,urlcolor=blue, citecolor=gray]{hyperref}
\urlstyle{same}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
regular cite \cite{Toto1899}
bla bla bla \PresCite{Toto1900,Toto1901,Toto1902}normal\footnote{normal footnote} footnotes\footnote{second footnote}
\printbibliography

\end{document}