Cfrgtkky

In the following example, using fnpct for the biblatex autocite command causes unwanted whitespace when a period occurs directly after the the quote.

documentclass{article}

usepackage[ngerman]{babel}



usepackage{filecontents}

begin{filecontents}{jobname.bib}

    @article{greenwade93,

        author  = "George D. Greenwade",

        title   = "The {C}omprehensive {T}ex {A}rchive {N}etwork ({CTAN})",

        year    = "1993",

        journal = "TUGBoat",

    }

    @book{goossens93,

        author    = "Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach and Alexander Samarin",

        title     = "The LaTeX Companion",

        year      = "1993",

    }

end{filecontents}



usepackage{csquotes}

usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear-ibid,date=year,autocite=footnote,giveninits=true]{biblatex}



SetCiteCommand{autocite} % used by csquotes



usepackage{fnpct}

AdaptNoteOptautocitemultfootcite



bibliography{jobname}

begin{document}

    null

    vfill

    blockcquote[see][123]{greenwade93}{Famous quote}. But the period causes an unwanted space to appear.

    blockcquote[see][123]{greenwade93}{Which is fixed by moving the period inside the quotation.} See?



    The problem is caused by texttt{fnpct}.



    texttt{fnpct} is needed to quote multiple authors at once, but in separate footnotesautocite{greenwade93}autocite{goossens93}

end{document}

Is it possible to configure fnpct to not add space between quotation mark and period?

As far as I can see the issue here is that handing control of autocite over to fnpct destroys autocite's ability to remove preceding whitespace. With biblatex's definition

Lorem autocite{sigfridsson}.

and

Loremautocite{sigfridsson}.

produce the same output since autocite issues unspace. But as soon as fnpct takes the reins, those two lines behave differently.

Usually this is not going to be much of a problem since you probably never leave a space before footnote or autocite anyway. But with the default settings of csquotes commands like blockcquote leave a space before they call autocite (assuming the usual definition of biblatex's citation commands that make sense: many commands need a space in front of the ...cite so they don't stick to the text before and footcite, autocite and friends can deal with preceding space just fine). You can explicitly tell csquotes not to leave a space before calling the citation command by redefining mkccitation, cf. also page 30 of the csquotes documentation,

renewcommand{mkccitation}[1]{#1}

The full MWE

documentclass{article}

usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

usepackage{csquotes}

usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear-ibid,date=year,autocite=footnote,giveninits=true]{biblatex}



SetCiteCommand{autocite}

renewcommand{mkccitation}[1]{#1}



usepackage{fnpct}

AdaptNoteOptautocitemultfootcite



addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

begin{document}

    null

    vfill

    blockcquote[see][123]{sigfridsson}{Famous quote}. But the period causes an unwanted space to appear.

    blockcquote[see][123]{sigfridsson}{Which is fixed by moving the period inside the quotation.} See?



    The problem is caused by texttt{fnpct}.



    texttt{fnpct} is needed to quote multiple authors at once, but in separate footnotesautocite{sigfridsson}autocite{sigfridsson}



  Lorem autocite{sigfridsson}.



  Loremautocite{sigfridsson}.

end{document}

then gives the expected output.

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