Custom folding citations in AUCTeX

Question

By default, only \cite is folded by AUCTeX. If you want other citation commands to be folded as well, you have to add them to LaTeX-fold-macro-spec-list manually. For example, with (push '("[nc]" ("nocite")) LaTeX-fold-macro-spec-list), I tell AUCTEX to fold the command \nocite and display "[nc]". If you want only the contents in parentheses to be shown but not the command (as it is done with sections or italics), you can replace "[nc]" by "{1}". In this case, only the citation key is displayed.

Now I have two specific cases which make me despair:

I'd like to have \citealias folded as specified in \defcitealias in my .tex-file. For example, if I define \defcitealias{key}{In December}, \citealias{key} should fold into "In December".
I'm trying to have \parencite folded to "(author, year, page)" as specified in the .bib-file. For example, if "key" is the citation key for "examplearticle", which is specified in the .bib-file as
```
@article{examplearticle,
title = {example title},
author = {Gentzen, Gerhard},
date = {1935-12}, ...} 
```

AUCTeX should fold \parencite[20]{example} and display "(Gentzen, 1935, p. 20)".

I'm quite new to elisp and this is simply too big of a task for me. Can anyone of you help me out?

Custom folding citations in AUCTeX

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