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UPDATE (10/09/16): the problem reported here is due to a bug in biber 2.6.

I want to have multiple citations in textcite in the text with a different ordering scheme than in the bibliography. I am using biblatex 3.6 with biber 2.6 In moewe's previous answer a year ago it was suggested to use

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,sorting=ydnt,sortcites]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\textcite{worman,geer,baez/article,wilde,knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b}

\begin{refcontext}[sorting=ynt]
\printbibliography
\end{refcontext}
\end{document}

But when using this, I don't get the descending ordering he posted, but rather

Knuth (1984), Knuth (1986), Wilde (1899), Geer (1985), Worman (2002), and Baez and Lauda (2004)

What is particularly strange is that the ordering of the textcite and of the biblography are identical. This sorting is very strange, because it is ascending except for the

Wilde (1899)

outlier. I guess there has been a change to biblatex so that a new solution is needed (or there is a bug).

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  • I can't reproduce this. I get the expected order in both citations and bibliography. I'm using 3.4/2.5, though. – cfr Oct 07 '16 at 00:16
  • I'm assuming this is a bug. Have you checked if it is a known one? – cfr Oct 07 '16 at 00:54
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    Actually, you don't need an example this complicated. Just set sorting to ynt and comment out the refcontext to see the problem. – cfr Oct 07 '16 at 01:04
  • https://github.com/plk/biber/issues/144 – cfr Oct 07 '16 at 01:19
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    You can either wait for an update to fix this or you can download Biblatex 3.7 and Biber 2.7 from SourceForge. [Source: see response to my bug report above.] – cfr Oct 07 '16 at 14:42
  • Thanks for reporting this to the biber team and the quick reply. – jpfeifer Oct 09 '16 at 17:05
  • I'm also having similar problems with two different sorting patterns conflicting. I have section bibliographies with a numeric scheme, set up with refsegment=section and then a global bibliography printed sorted nyt in authoryear style. With biblatex v3.6 and biber v2.6 the citations are numbered according to their order in the global bibliography, rather than order of appearance.

    The new versions of biblatex 3.7 and biber 2.7 don't fix it. I get the old behavior back if I roll back to biblatex 3.4 and biber 2.5. Examples at issue on github.

     – tmgriffiths Oct 14 '16 at 04:18
  • Looking at it. It is amusing that people refer to me as a "team"! – PLK Oct 14 '16 at 13:10

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This behaviour is due to two small bugs in Biber that have been fixed in the development version 2.8 (https://github.com/plk/biber/issues/144).

The MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,sorting=ydnt,sortcites]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\textcite{worman,geer,baez/article,wilde,knuth:ct:a,knuth:ct:b}

\begin{refcontext}[sorting=ynt]
\printbibliography
\end{refcontext}
\end{document}

now produces

Baez and Lauda (2004), Worman (2002), Knuth (1986), Geer (1985), Knuth (1984), and Wilde (1899)

as expected.

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