Feature request: Title first option

[abjer]

In some disciplines it is common to have titles first in the bibliography before writing "(with NN1, NN2), YYYY". I'd very much appreciate that way of organizing the publication list.

Example here of how to do it in biblatex.

BTW. - I really love the package!

[jspitz]

I'd say this is not mainly a publist issue. The order is determined by the inherited base style (authoryear.bbx by default, that means: standard.bbx), in the bibliography drivers. E.g., for article, redefine the default like so

\DeclareBibliographyDriver{article}{%
	\usebibmacro{bibindex}%
	\usebibmacro{begentry}%
	\usebibmacro{title}% <--- MOVED
	\setunit{\addspace}% <--- ADDED
	\usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
	\newblock
	\newunit
	\printlist{language}%
	\newunit\newblock
	\usebibmacro{byauthor}%
	\newunit\newblock
	\usebibmacro{bytranslator+others}%
	\newunit\newblock
	\printfield{version}%
	\newunit\newblock
	\usebibmacro{in:}%
	\usebibmacro{journal+issuetitle}%
	\newunit
	\usebibmacro{byeditor+others}%
	\newunit
	\usebibmacro{note+pages}%
	\newunit\newblock
	\iftoggle{bbx:isbn}
	{\printfield{issn}}
	{}%
	\newunit\newblock
	\usebibmacro{doi+eprint+url}%
	\newunit\newblock
	\usebibmacro{addendum+pubstate}%
	\setunit{\bibpagerefpunct}\newblock
	\usebibmacro{pageref}%
	\newunit\newblock
	\iftoggle{bbx:related}
	{\usebibmacro{related:init}%
		\usebibmacro{related}}
	{}%
	\usebibmacro{finentry}}

The only thing you need to redefine from publist is the order in the author macro, like this:

\renewbibmacro*{author}{%
    \ifnameundef{author}
        {}
        {%
            \usebibmacro{bpl:marginyear}%
            \printnames[][-\value{listtotal}]{author}%
            \setunit{\addspace}%
            \iffieldundef{nameaddon}
            {}
            {%
                \mkbibbrackets{%
                       \bibstring{alias}%
                        \addspace\printfield{nameaddon}%
                }%
            }%
    }%
    \addcomma\addspace%
    \usebibmacro{bpl:year+labelyear}%
}

Not much I can do in publist I'm afraid. I'd suggest you set up a respective base style and to the author macro modification in the preamble of the document.

[abjer]

That's great, thanks for the advice!

[dkwo]

This is definitely possible, but perhaps it's desirable that such style is implemented in biblatex-publist (after all the purpose is to produce a publication list). Otherwise one has to redefine in similar way the driver for online, then phdthesis, and so on. Btw, if I don't do anything, my phd thesis starts with a comma: , year. “Title”. PhD thesis. School, City.