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+Release notes for version 1.0rc5 [2018-01-16]:
+
+ - Recent releases of biblatex have introduced some compatibility
+ problems for biblatex-chicago, particularly with regard to the
+ handling of the "origlanguage" field (now a list), but also through
+ the renaming of several other fields and declarations, e.g.,
+ \DeclareSortingTemplate. I have improved the handling of the
+ "origlanguage" list by including many new bibstrings in the
+ package's localization files, but other changes to formatting
+ macros have made backward compatibility with older releases of
+ biblatex difficult or impossible. Please upgrade to version 3.10
+ -- which has received the most testing -- to use these styles.
+
+ - As I mentioned in the initial Notice of biblatex-chicago.pdf, the
+ 17th edition of the Manual has now appeared, and my development
+ energies from this point will be devoted to upgrading all styles to
+ conform to it. You can still file bug reports against the 16th
+ edition, but the next major feature release will be based on the
+ 17th. In preparation for these changes, I have removed all the
+ 15th-edition files from the package.
+
+Other New Features:
+
+ - After fielding multiple requests over the years, I have added three
+ new entry types -- Jurisdiction, Legal, and Legislation -- to allow
+ the presentation of court cases, laws, treaties, congressional
+ (parliamentary) debates and hearings, constitutions, and executive
+ documents. The first ("round" and "square") and last ("canada",
+ "constitution", "hansard", "hearing", "uk", and "un") introduce a
+ number of new "entrysubtypes" to help with formatting quirks,
+ including the presentation of Canadian and UK materials for
+ inclusion in an otherwise US context. There are also several new
+ options ("legalnotes", "noneshort", "short", and "supranotes") for
+ controlling the output. I have documented all of this in section 6
+ of biblatex-chicago.pdf, a separate section both because the
+ specification really comes from the Bluebook rather than the
+ Manual, and also because they are the only entry types treated
+ identically by the notes & bibliography style and the author-date
+ styles (itself a formatting quirk). You can also look at the
+ sample files legal-test.bib and cms-legal-sample.pdf to see how you
+ might construct your database entries. Support for Bluebook
+ citations is in its infancy, so if you have ideas for sorting out
+ its complexities more elegantly or spot any inaccuracies then I
+ would be happy to hear about it. The implementation is intended
+ mainly for American documents, but there is some rudimentary
+ localization for the other languages supported by biblatex-chicago.
+ The actual citations in such contexts would, let it be noted, fall
+ outside of the Bluebook spec.
+
+ - I am grateful to Gustavo Barros for providing a Brazilian
+ Portuguese localization for biblatex-chicago, contained in the
+ cms-brazilian.lbx file.
+
+ - Gustavo also pointed out a couple of instances where the package's
+ \bibstrings couldn't accommodate the needs of his localization, so
+ with his help I've split the "recorded" string into "discrecorded"
+ and "songrecorded", then added it to all the .lbx files. I've also
+ added two new \bibstrings for the "lista" field format: "subverbo"
+ and "subverbis". I've added them to all the .lbx files, but only
+ cms-brazilian.lbx differs from the default. If other languages
+ need this change please let me know.
+
+ - The same user also suggested a fix to Patent entries: removing the
+ comma from between the dates when the language doesn't use a comma
+ in lists.
+
+ - Timo Thoms pointed out some annoying inconsistencies when using the
+ hyperref package with the author-date styles, and I have attempted
+ to rectify them. In citations, only the "date" portion should act
+ as a link, if there is a "date", otherwise a "title" or perhaps a
+ "shorthand" will link to the entry in the list of references. If
+ you have entries that you believe should present hyperlinks but
+ don't, you can try setting the new "hypertitle" option in their
+ "options" fields. Alternately, you can set the option to "true"
+ globally in the preamble and then "titles" and "shorthands" will
+ serve as links whether there's a "date" or not. Cf. section 5.4.3
+ in biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - Bertold Schweitzer requested that the styles allow using the string
+ "forthcoming" in the "pubstate" field to present sources that are
+ yet to be published. This is now supported in all styles, and has
+ the additional benefit of rendering recourse to the \autocap
+ command unnecessary, as the styles print \bibstring{forthcoming}
+ where the "year" would normally appear. Using the "year" field
+ itself is, of course, still supported too.
+
+ - The same user requested that I allow "newspaper" as an exact
+ synonym of "magazine" in the "entrysubtype" field of Article,
+ Review, Periodical, and Suppperiodical entries. I have provided
+ this in all styles, and whereever you see "magazine" in the
+ documentation then "newspaper" will work in exactly the same way.
+
+ - Bertold also suggested that, following the example of Philip Kime's
+ biblatex-apa package, I support the use of "related" functionality
+ when presenting reviews, so that you can, for example, easily
+ present multiple reviews of the same item. I have provided this
+ functionality in all styles. To enable it you'll need to set the
+ "relatedtype" field to "reviewof" in Article, Review, or
+ Suppperiodical types. You should also read the documentation in
+ section 4.2.1 or 5.2.1 in biblatex-chicago.pdf, as this
+ "relatedtype" works somewhat differently from the others. The
+ standard, manual way of citing such works remains, of course,
+ available.
+
+ - Jan David Hauck suggested that there was a need for an
+ "unpublished" "entrysubtype" to the Report type, which would
+ present the "title" in quotation marks (or plain roman in
+ authordate-trad) instead of italics. I can't quite tell if the
+ Manual agrees, but I have fulfilled this request in all styles.
+
+ - The same user pointed out that standard biblatex and the discussion
+ in the Manual both suggest providing "venue", "eventdate",
+ "eventtitle", and "eventtitleaddon" fields for the Unpublished
+ type, thereby allowing for the further specification of unpublished
+ conference papers and the like. I have added these fields in all
+ styles.
+
+ - At the request of N. Andrew Walsh, the notes & bibliography style
+ now offers a way to disambiguate references to different sources
+ which would ordinarily produce identical short notes, that is,
+ where the "author" and "labeltitle" are the same. Biblatex's
+ "uniquework" option is now active by default, and biblatex-chicago
+ provides three new user options, one for choosing a disambiguating
+ field, one for setting the punctuation between that field and the
+ rest of the short note, and one for formatting the field using
+ parentheses or square brackets -- "shortextrafield",
+ "shortextrapunct", and "shortextraformat", respectively. Please
+ see section 4.4.3 in biblatex-chicago.pdf for the details, and note
+ that "shortextrafield" has to be set for the mechanism to print
+ anything at all.
+
+ - User Pétùr spotted two long-standing bugs: first, that the
+ "url=false" option didn't stop the printing of the "urldate", and
+ second that empty parentheses would appear in some circumstances
+ around non-existent "dates" in the author-date styles. I have
+ fixed both.
+
+ - Philipp Immel wondered whether I could address a long-standing bug
+ when presenting a "subtitle" after a "title" that ends in an
+ exclamation point or question mark. This bug has existed since the
+ first release of the 16th-edition styles, and I think I've finally
+ solved it now (after the release of the Manual's 17th edition).
+
+
+Release notes for version 1.0rc4 [2017-05-02]:
+
+Another bug-fix release.
+
+ - Marko Wenzel reported, and helped to fix, a fairly major problem
+ with the date handling in the author-date styles, an issue I hadn't
+ spotted when doing the date-related updates for 1.0rc2.
+
+ - I've also fixed a long-standing inaccuracy in the date-handling
+ code of Patent entries in the author-date styles. Such entries now
+ behave as the documentation claims they do.
+
+Release notes for version 1.0rc3 [2017-04-20]:
+
+This is a minor bug-fix release.
+
+ - Charles Schaum reported a whitespace bug that appeared when using
+ multiple languages with Babel. This was introduced in the last
+ release by some careless editing by me, and should be fixed now.
+
+ - Charles also pointed me to a discussion about a problem using
+ BibTeX with biblatex-chicago. Ulrike Fischer very kindly suggested
+ an elegant solution, and I have integrated it into this release.
+
+Release notes for version 1.0rc2 [2017-03-26]:
+
+This is an interim release designed mainly to fix a number of subtle
+issues, pointed out by several users, that appear when you use the
+newest version of biblatex (3.7). These were mostly concentrated in
+the date-handling code, which I believe now behaves correctly, and
+should do both with the newest biblatex and with somewhat older
+releases. A much larger set of new features is still pending, but I
+have fixed some other bugs and added a few new options:
+
+ - J. P. E. Harper-Scott pointed out that, in ordinary British usage,
+ day numbers are presented as plain cardinals rather than ordinals.
+ The Manual itself also prefers this format, not only for
+ American-style dates but also for British ones, so I think the
+ previous behavior of the package was a bug. I have in both styles
+ set the default presentation of British day numerals to be plain
+ cardinals, providing a new preamble option "ordinalgb" restoring
+ the previous default and printing ordinal dates when using the
+ "british" language with Babel.
+
+ - I have, in both styles, attempted to provide an improved \partedit
+ macro, the old one being inconvenient for users writing in French.
+ The new macro should work now without manual intervention to
+ provide the correct form of the preposition (de or d'). If you are
+ using the "french" option to Babel, please take care to remove any
+ hand-formatting you might have provided in these contexts.
+
+ - Jan David Hauck has both reported a bug in the \gentextcite code in
+ the author-date styles and also pointed me to its solution, as
+ provided by moewe on Stackexchange. It turned out there were other
+ bugs in that code, now also fixed.
+
+ - User laudecir requested a way to present a "shorthand" even in the
+ first citation of a given work. The new "shorthandfirst" option in
+ the notes & bibliography style can be set to "true" either in the
+ preamble or in individual entries, and should make this
+ functionality simpler to activate than the \shorthandcite command.
+
+ - Also in the notes & bibliography style, Stefan Björk requested a
+ way to turn off the printing of "url," "doi," and "eprint"
+ information in notes but not in the bibliography. The new
+ "urlnotes" option, which you can set to "false" in the preamble or
+ in individual entries, provides this. Please note that it does not
+ apply to Online entries.
+
+ - Several users pointed out the presence of warnings in .log files
+ caused by deprecated grammar in the default Sorting Schemes of both
+ styles. These should now be fixed.
+
+Release notes for version 1.0rc1 [2016-06-07]:
+
+ - The 15th-edition styles are now obsolete, and have been moved to a
+ new obsolete/ subdirectory. You can still use them as they stand,
+ but they won't compile against the newest biblatex, so you'll have
+ to make sure that you have an older version (2.9a, perhaps). If
+ you are still using them, I strongly urge you to consider switching
+ to the the 16th-edition styles, which contain many new features and
+ bug-fixes.
+
+ - The old Chicago-specific option "usecompiler" is deprecated, and
+ has been replaced by the standard biblatex "usenamec". If you have
+ been using the former in your preamble or in your .bib entries,
+ please replace it with the latter, which works better across the
+ board. "Usecompiler" still "works," just not very well.
+
+ - Stefan Björk has very generously provided a Swedish localization
+ file for the package -- cms-swedish.lbx -- which can be loaded and
+ used with babel just like the other localizations.
+
+ - I have added support for "related" functionality to all the Chicago
+ styles, including all the standard biblatex "relatedtypes". It is
+ turned on by default in all styles, but you can turn it off, or
+ alter where the information is printed, using the "related" option
+ in the preamble or in individual entries. In the notes &
+ bibliography style, "related" information is printed by default
+ only in the bibliography, but you can change that by setting the
+ option. In the author-date styles, it will only ever print in the
+ list of references, depending on the option's setting. Please see
+ sections 4.2.1 and 5.2.1 of biblatex-chicago.pdf for the details.
+
+ - I have improved the name-handling code in all styles, regularizing
+ the functioning of the "namea", "nameb", and "namec" fields with
+ respect to the other, standard biblatex names. The former two in
+ particular are newly available in the Collection and Periodical
+ entry types, and biblatex-chicago now recognizes the standard
+ "usenamea", "usenameb", and "usenamec" toggles, the last replacing
+ the deprecated "usecompiler" (as above). You can also now use the
+ "nameatype" field just as you would an "editortype", extending the
+ possibilities for identifying certain roles attached specifically
+ to "titles" as opposed to "booktitles" or "maintitles".
+
+ - After a request by user BenVB, I have added support for the
+ biblatex "shortjournal" field, which allows you to present
+ abbreviated "journaltitles" in all the styles. You can use the
+ "journalabbrev" option to control where in your document these
+ abbreviated forms will appear. By default, the field is ignored in
+ the notes & bibliography style, and appears only in citations in
+ the author-date styles. You can also print a list of journal
+ abbreviations, rather in the manner of a list of shorthands, using
+ a command like: \printbiblist{shortjournal}. Even though the
+ Periodical entry type uses the "title" and "shorttitle" fields in
+ place of "journaltitle" and "shortjournal", these entries are
+ included in this functionality, and controlled by the same
+ "journalabbrev" option. Please see s.v. "shortjournal" in sections
+ 4.2 and 5.2 of biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - Following a request by Arne Skjærholt, and his generous provision
+ of some code to get me started, I have implemented a new
+ \gentextcite citation command in all styles. The "gen" part of the
+ name refers to the genitive case, and it adds a possessive ending
+ -- 's by default -- to the author's name in what is otherwise an
+ ordinary \textcite. You can change the added ending however you
+ want, using a third optional field to the citation command, and you
+ can control to which names the ending is added in a \gentextcites
+ multicite command by using the "genallnames" preamble and entry
+ option. Please see sections 4.3.2 and 5.3.2 for the details.
+
+ - Stefan Björk pointed out that "url", "doi", and "eprint"
+ information could be totally ignored in some entries when you used
+ the abbreviated cross-referencing functionality accessed through
+ the "crossref" and "xref" fields. At his request, I have provided
+ a new "xrefurl" entry and preamble option for all the styles to
+ control the printing of this information in abbreviated notes or
+ bibliography (reference list) entries. Please see sections 4.4.3
+ and 5.4.3 for the details.
+
+ - In a related change, I have stopped child entries inheriting "url",
+ "doi", and "eprint" fields from their cross-ref'd parents, so if
+ your documents rely on this behavior please note that you'll have
+ to provide such fields manually in the child entries.
+
+ - Roger Hart long ago requested a way to control the punctuation
+ before "book-", "main-", or plain "titleaddon" fields, and I have
+ finally added it in this release in the form of two entry and
+ preamble options, "ptitleaddon" and "ctitleaddon", available in all
+ styles. By default, the former prints \addperiod\addspace, hence
+ its name, and the latter \addcomma\addspace, but you can change
+ either or both depending on which field you are using and which
+ sort of entry it appears in -- the default output can be your guide
+ to which option(s) to change. Please see the available valid
+ option keys in sections 4.4.2 and 5.4.2.
+
+ - The same user also long ago requested that the notes & bibliography
+ style make it possible to use "Idem" when two consecutive notes
+ cite different works by the same author. You can now use the
+ standard biblatex option "idemtracker=constrict" in your preamble
+ to activate this in your documents, but please be aware, first,
+ that the Manual doesn't exactly approve of this and, second, that
+ you'll only see "Idem" in short notes, never in full ones, which
+ seems to be the standard biblatex way of implementing this.
+
+ - Also only in the notes & bibliography style, I have added a
+ "shorthandpunct" option to control the punctuation that appears
+ before the first appearance of a "shorthand" and/or a
+ "shorthandintro" in a long note. The default is \addspace, but you
+ can change it in your preamble or in individual entries. Please
+ see the available valid option keys in section 4.4.2 of
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - After reading a discussion started by Ryo Furue at github, I have
+ added, in the author-date styles only, a test to some spacing
+ commands to prevent line breaks immediately after abbreviation
+ dots. These tests apply only in running text, never in the list of
+ references, where good line breaks are already hard enough to find.
+
+ - In addition to moving the 15th-edition styles into an obsolete/
+ subdirectory, I have also reorganized the author-date style files,
+ adding chicago-dates-common.cbx, which contains the code that is
+ common to the "trad" and the standard "authordate" styles. Nothing
+ has changed in terms of loading the styles, the changes being
+ designed primarily to ease maintenance.
+
+ - I have created two new documentation files (and an appendix) to
+ provide short introductions to the Chicago styles, introductions
+ which attempt to fill the gap between the Quickstart section of
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf and the fuller documentation contained in
+ sections 4 and 5 of that file. Both cms-notes-intro.pdf and
+ cms-dates-intro.pdf are fully hyperlinked so you can move easily
+ from formatted citations and (annotated) references to .bib entries
+ and back, with marginal references to the fuller discussions in
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf. There is also a short cms-trad-appendix.pdf
+ file to discuss a few entries that would need special treatment for
+ the "trad" style. The sample files for each style still exist, but
+ I intend them mainly for testing purposes, while many more
+ (annotated) entries are still available for consultation in
+ notes-test.bib and dates-test.bib.
+
+ - I have made a number of other small enhancements to and fixed
+ numerous bugs in all the styles, including some subtle inaccuracies
+ in author-date citations spotted by Arne Skjærholt and some macros
+ in InProceedings entries that had been missing for years. I have
+ provided some default values for counters in biblatex-chicago.sty
+ that aid in breaking long urls across lines, but I make no pretense
+ that these fully adhere to the Manual's specifications. I have
+ added a few \bibstrings, currently missing in standard biblatex, to
+ cms-german.lbx for use with the "related" functionality.
+ Recommendations for better ones would be gratefully received.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9i [2016-05-16]:
+
+ - This is another interim release, allowing the use of biblatex 3.4
+ for those who want to try it. I have also fixed one old formatting
+ error when "n.d." appears in author-date citations. A full
+ feature-release based on 3.4 is imminent.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9h [2016-03-22]:
+
+ - This is an interim bug-fix release, updating the styles so that
+ they will work with biblatex 3.3. The notes & bibliography style,
+ as pointed out by several users, wouldn't compile at all with the
+ newest biblatex version, and all styles had inaccuracies in the
+ presentation of names due to changes in the name-handling code in
+ biblatex. I've done some testing against biblatex 3.3, and fixed
+ all the errors I've spotted, but there may still be parts of my
+ code that need updating to work well with the current version, so
+ you can still downgrade to an earlier biblatex -- I recommend 2.9a
+ -- if 3.3 doesn't work for you. The next release will be a feature
+ release, so if you've made a request, it should be fulfilled then.
+
+ - I've also fixed a couple of long-standing bugs, one in the entry
+ options controlling abbreviated cross-references and another in the
+ formatting of the "prenote" field, the latter identified (ages ago)
+ by Bernd Rellermeyer.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9g [2014-08-21]:
+
+ - Alexandre Roberts found a showstopper in the functionality related
+ to the new "inheritshorthand" option in the notes & bibliography
+ style, and I found an unpleasant bug in the formatting of
+ abbreviated cross-references in the same style. This release, I
+ hope, fixes both, but is in all other respects identical to 0.9.9f.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9f [2014-08-15]:
+
+ - I've made the alterations needed to bring the styles into line with
+ the latest version of biblatex (2.9a). This is the version that
+ has been tested most thoroughly with biblatex-chicago, so I
+ strongly recommend using it.
+
+ - I fixed several inaccuracies in the presentation of abbreviated
+ cross-references in all the Chicago styles, and while I was working
+ on that portion of the code it seemed an opportune moment to
+ fulfill some feature requests bearing on the same area of
+ functionality.
+
+ - First, following a request from Alexandre Roberts, I have added the
+ "inheritshorthand" option to the notes & bibliography style, which
+ allows child entries to inherit the "shorthand" field from their
+ parents. This in turn allows the shorthand itself to appear in
+ place of the usual abbreviated citation of parent entries
+ cross-referenced by several different child entries, thereby saving
+ some space. (This behavior was already available in the
+ author-date styles, so the option is unnecessary there.) You'll
+ need to use "skipbiblist" in the "options" field of child entries
+ to make the list of shorthands work correctly. Please see the
+ documentation of the "shorthand" field for the full explanation.
+
+ - Second, following a request from Kenneth Pearce, I have added to
+ all Chicago styles the capacity to combine abbreviated
+ cross-references with the presentation of the original text of
+ translations (via the "userf" field) or of the original publication
+ details of an essay or chapter you are citing from a subsequent
+ reprint (via the "reprinttitle" field). See the documentation of
+ those fields, and also of "crossref," and note that you can now,
+ taking certain precautions as outlined in the "shorthand" docs,
+ combine the "userf," "crossref," and "shorthand" fields. This
+ mechanism contains a great many moving parts, so please report any
+ problems you might have with it.
+
+ - Third, and finally, following a bug report by Mark van Atten I have
+ fixed all Chicago styles so that the biblatex "backref" mechanism
+ works properly in biblatex-chicago, including in those entries that
+ use abbreviated cross-references, and in those that use the "userf"
+ or "reprinttitle" fields. I can't see any instructions concerning
+ this in the Manual, so I've left the formatting of "backref" lists
+ in the hands of biblatex itself. If the default behavior doesn't
+ match your needs, let me know, as it's possible I could add some
+ further options for modifying it.
+
+ - I have added a new "compresspages" option to all the Chicago
+ styles. If set to "true" it automatically compresses page ranges
+ in the "pages" and "postnote" fields, allowing you to type ranges
+ naturally, e.g., 101--109, and letting the package follow the
+ Manual's rules for you. (In this case, it would yield 101-9 in the
+ document.) Thanks are due to David Gohlke who brought to my
+ attention a discussion that took place a couple of years ago on
+ Stack Exchange regarding the automatic compression of page ranges.
+ Biblatex has long had the facilities for providing this, and though
+ the Manual's rules (9.60) are fairly complicated, Audrey Boruvka
+ fortunately provided in that discussion code that implements the
+ specifications. As some users may well be accustomed to
+ compressing page ranges themselves in their .bib files, and in
+ their "postnote" fields, I have made the activation of this code a
+ package option.
+
+ - Several users, most recently David Gohlke, have requested a way to
+ alter the punctuation that appears just before the "postnote"
+ argument of citation commands. This allows, in the notes &
+ bibliography style, citations to fit better into the flow of text,
+ while in the author-date styles it allows you very easily to insert
+ comments, which follow a semi-colon, inside parenthetical text
+ citations. This punctuation is a complex issue in the Manual, but
+ as a first stab at enabling this greater flexibility, I have
+ introduced the "postnotepunct" package option. Set to "true," it
+ allows you to start the "postnote" field with a punctuation mark
+ (. , ; :) and have it appear as the \postnotedelim in place of
+ whatever the package might otherwise automatically have chosen.
+ Please note that this functionality relies on a very nifty macro by
+ Philipp Lehman which I haven't extensively tested, so I'm labeling
+ this option "experimental." Note also that the option only affects
+ the "postnote" field of citation commands, not the "pages" field in
+ your .bib file. Note, finally, that if you are using the new
+ "compresspages" option then any "postnote" field starting with a
+ punctuation mark will require you to do the compression of page
+ ranges yourself.
+
+ - I've added a new inheritance declaration so that InCollection
+ entries can inherit from Book entries the same way they inherit
+ from MVBook.
+
+ - I've fixed a fair number of other bugs, including two in the Ibidem
+ mechanism pointed out by Bernd Rellermeyer, one in the printing of
+ dates, and one in the \textcite command in the notes & bibliography
+ style, these last two pointed out by Kenneth Beesley. The
+ presentation of all the periodical entry types (without an
+ "entrysubtype") has also been made more accurate.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9e [2014-01-29]:
+
+ - This minor release fixes a regression in the Ibidem mechanism in
+ the notes & bibliography style, spotted by Harold Bellemare, and
+ present in the package since version 0.9.9c. In all other respects
+ this release is identical to 0.9.9d.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9d [2013-10-30]:
+
+ - I am marking the 15th-edition styles as "strongly deprecated." I
+ recommend that you switch to one of the 16th-edition styles as soon
+ as is practicable. The older styles still work, but in the next
+ major release I shall mark them as "obsolete," and cease updating
+ them.
+
+There are four changes in this release that may, depending on various
+factors, require alterations in your documents or .bib files:
+
+ - Following requests by Kenneth L. Pearce and Bertold Schweitzer, I
+ have modified and extended the mechanism for creating abbreviated
+ citations when several parts of the same collection are included in
+ a reference apparatus. To the InCollection, InProceedings, and
+ Letter entries of previous releases, I have added InBook, Book,
+ BookInBook, Collection, and Proceedings entries. Only InBook
+ entries join the former three in having this functionality turned
+ on by default --- if you don't want this, it will require
+ intervention either in the preamble or in the "options" field of
+ individual entries. This intervention will be via the new
+ "longcrossref" option, which controls the behavior of the four
+ essay-like entry types and defaults to "false," while the new
+ "booklongxref" option controls the four book-like types and
+ defaults to "true." The useful settings for the options differ
+ slightly between the author-date and the notes & bibliography
+ specifications, so please see all the details in the docs of the
+ "crossref" field in sections 4.2 and 5.2 of biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - On the same subject, in the notes & bibliography style, I should
+ mention that in the first, full citation of one part of a
+ collection in a note, the code no longer uses a separate citation
+ of the parent entry to supply parts of what you see printed. (This
+ led to numerous inaccuracies.) If your setup uses a side-effect of
+ the old code to print data that hasn't even been inherited by the
+ child, you may find that you need to change some "xref" fields to
+ "crossref" fields to make it work correctly now. This situation
+ will, I imagine, be very rare, but you can look at white:ross:memo
+ in notes-test.bib to see an example.
+
+ - In the author-date styles, several users have been frustrated by
+ the lack of an approved way of setting the "cmsdate" option in the
+ preambles of their documents, and Kenneth L. Pearce requested that
+ I attempt to ease the burden on users by looking at this again.
+ With this release, you can now set "cmsdate" either to "both" or
+ "on" in the preamble, and it will affect all entries (except Music,
+ Review, and Video) with multiple dates. You can still change this
+ setting in the "options" field of individual entries, but what you
+ won't be able to change there is the new call to \DeclareLabeldate
+ which puts the "origdate" first in the list of dates when Biber
+ searches for a "labelyear" to use in citations and in the list of
+ references. If you have been using the "switchdates" mechanism to
+ get the "origdate" as the "labeldate," your .bib files may need
+ some editing in order to use the new preamble options. Please see
+ the documentation of the "date" field in section 5.2 of
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf for all the (voluminous) details.
+
+ - Following a request by Rasmus Pank Rouland, I adapted new biblatex
+ code in the \textcite(s) commands in all styles to make them fit
+ more elegantly in the flow of text. Upon reconsideration of the
+ commands in the notes & bibliography style, I slightly modified
+ them, but _only_ when used inside a foot- or endnote. In this
+ context, by default, for both \textcite and \textcites, you'll now
+ get the author's name(s) followed by a headless _short_ citation
+ (or citations) placed within parentheses. You can use
+ \renewcommand in the preamble of your document to redefine the new
+ \foottextcite and \foottextcites commands to change this
+ formatting. See section 4.3.1 of biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+Other New Features:
+
+ - This release includes support, in all styles, for biblatex's
+ multi-volume entry types: MVBook, MVCollection, MVProceedings, and
+ MVReference.
+
+ - If you use Biber, I have added several new inheritance schemes to
+ all styles to make cross-referenced entries work more smoothly:
+ InCollection entries can now inherit from MVBook just as they do
+ from MVCollection entries; Letter entries now inherit from Book,
+ Collection, MVBook, and MVCollection entries the same way an InBook
+ or an InCollection entry would; the "namea," "nameb," "sortname,"
+ "sorttitle," and "sortyear" fields, all highly single-entry
+ specific, are no longer inheritable; and the "date" and "origdate"
+ fields of any MV* entry will _not_ be inherited by any other entry
+ type.
+
+ - Following a bug report by Henry D. Hollithron, I've added to
+ Unpublished entries in all styles the possibility of including an
+ "editor," "translator," etc.
+
+ - Thanks to bug reports from Denis Maier and Bertold Schweitzer, I
+ corrected inaccuracies and outright bugs in many entry types in all
+ Chicago styles that appeared when there was a "booktitle" and not a
+ "maintitle" or vice versa. This also involved another rewrite of
+ the code handling the "volume" field and other related fields in
+ all non-periodical entry types that use them.
+
+ - On the subject of the "volume" field, I added a new preamble and
+ entry option, "delayvolume," to the notes & bibliography style. In
+ long notes where this data isn't printed before a "maintitle," this
+ option allows you to print it _after_ the publication information
+ rather than _before_ it, as may sometimes help clarify things,
+ according to the Manual. This applies to the non-periodical entry
+ types only.
+
+ - On the same subject, in all styles, I have added a new preamble and
+ entry option, "hidevolumes." This controls whether, in entries
+ where a "volume" has been printed before a "maintitle," any
+ "volumes" field present will also be printed, in this case _after_
+ the "maintitle." By default, this is set to "true," so that the
+ "volumes" field won't appear in such circumstances.
+
+ - On the same subject, I have modified, in all styles, the field
+ format for the "part" field, so that if the field contains
+ something other than a number, biblatex-chicago will print it as
+ is, capitalizing it if necessary, rather than supplying the usual
+ bibstring, thus providing a mechanism for altering the string to
+ your liking. I have also decoupled the "part" field from the
+ "volume" field, allowing it to be printed even in the absence of
+ the latter, thereby providing a means to refer to segments of a
+ larger work that don't easily fit the established schemes. The
+ iso:electrodoc entry in dates-test.bib shows an example of how this
+ might work.
+
+ - There is a new "omitxrefdate" preamble and entry option in the
+ notes & bibliography style. It turns off the printing of the
+ child's "date" next to its "title" in abbreviated book-like entries
+ _only_, in both notes and bibliography.
+
+ - Clea F. Rees requested a way to customize the punctuation when a
+ volume and a page number appear together like so: "2:204." You can
+ use \renewcommand in your preamble to redefine the new
+ \postvolpunct command to achieve this, in all styles. If your
+ document language is French, cms-french.lbx redefines this already
+ and prints something like "2 : 204."
+
+ - I extended, in all styles, the functions of the "userd" field,
+ allowing it to modify a "date" field if it hasn't already been
+ captured by another date specification in the entry.
+
+ - A bug report from Mathias Legrand helped clear up inaccuracies in
+ the presentation of ordinal numbers in all styles.
+
+ - For the author-date styles, another bug report by Kenneth Pearce
+ resulted in the addition of the "labelyear" to the default "cms"
+ sorting scheme so that more entries in the reference list are
+ sorted properly without further user intervention.
+
+ - George Pigman found an odd punctuation-tracking bug in the
+ author-date styles. This has been fixed.
+
+ - Marc Sommer found a bug in the presentation of the "prenote" field
+ in the author-date styles. This has been fixed.
+
+ - In the notes & bibliography style, I improved the behavior of
+ abbreviated foot- and endnotes when using the hyperref package.
+
+ - I modified the date-presentation code in all the language files
+ (cms-*.lbx) provided by the package. Now, if an entry contains a
+ "(*)year" and an "(*)endyear" that are exactly the same, and there
+ aren't any further month or day specifications, then the "(*)year"
+ alone will be printed. This allows for the clearing of spurious
+ "(*)endyears" inherited from parent entries.
+
+ - I discovered some unpleasant side effects of my arrangement of the
+ .lbx files devoted to Norwegian, and reverted to the arrangement as
+ originally provided by Håkon Malmedal.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9c [2013-03-15]:
+
+ - I am marking the 15th-edition styles as "deprecated." I recommend
+ that you switch to one of the 16th-edition styles as soon as is
+ practicable. The older styles still work, but haven't received any
+ updates or bug fixes for this release.
+
+ - Antti-Juhani Kaijahano has very kindly provided a new Finnish
+ localization for biblatex-chicago, called cms-finnish.lbx. As you
+ will see if you look through it, it is still something of a work in
+ progress. If you would like to fill some of its lacunae, please do
+ let me know.
+
+ - Following a report by Bertold Schweitzer, I have added the "namea"
+ and "nameb" fields to Article and Review entries in all three
+ 16th-edition Chicago styles. As in all the book-like entry types,
+ they allow you to associate an editor or a translator specifically
+ with a "title" rather than, in these cases, with an "issuetitle."
+ See the docs on these entry types in sections 4.1 and 5.1 in
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - Thanks to another report by Bertold I have, in all three
+ 16th-edition Chicago styles, corrected inaccuracies in the
+ presentation of the Report entry type. The "number" now appears
+ immediately after the "type," and the "type" itself is now
+ capitalized properly depending on its context in an entry.
+
+ - A third report by Bertold, detailing inaccuracies in the treatment
+ of the "volume" and "volumes" fields in certain contexts, has
+ resulted in a complete rewrite of the presentation of these (and
+ several related) fields in all non-periodical entry types in all
+ three 16th-edition Chicago styles. This won't require any changes
+ to your .bib files, but the output you see may, in some reasonably
+ unusual situations, change. Please let me know if something
+ doesn't look right to you.
+
+ - A fourth report by Bertold revealed some inadequacies with multiple
+ date presentation in the two 16th-edition author-date styles,
+ issues that particularly involved cross-referenced entries. In
+ addition to some general fixes in the code, I have also slightly
+ changed the functioning of the "cmsdate=both" and "cmsdate=on"
+ switches. If, and only if, a work has only one date, and there is
+ no "switchdates" in the "options" field, then "cmsdate=on" and
+ "cmsdate=both" will both result in the suppression of the
+ "extrayear" field in that entry. See the "date" field docs in
+ section 5.2 of biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - Following a report by Antti-Juhani Kaijahano, I have modified the
+ presentation of author-less Article and Review entries in the
+ reference list of both 16th-edition author-date styles. If such a
+ source had a "magazine" "entrysubtype," the styles would already
+ use the "journaltitle" at the head of the entry in the list of
+ references, but if there was no "entrysubtype" the entry would
+ appear in the list "date" first. Now, in keeping with the Manual
+ (14.175), the "title" will appear first, in both reference lists
+ and in-text citations. See especially under Article in section 5.1
+ of biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - Several users have pointed out annoying formatting errors in the
+ 16th-edition styles. Evan Cortens spotted two bugs in the notes &
+ bibliography style, one of which, under various circumstances,
+ introduced extra spaces into long notes and the other of which
+ affected the formatting of the "type" field in Thesis entries. I
+ have fixed both, also applying the latter fix to several other
+ entry types that use the "type" field. Bertold Schweitzer pointed
+ out a formatting bug with the "issuesubtitle" field in the
+ author-date style, now fixed. Mark Sprevak reported some spurious
+ spaces appearing in headers and footers when using the titleps
+ package; the culprits were errors in the cms-*.lbx files, now
+ cleaned up.
+
+ - I have rectified a number of other errors, in particular making the
+ automatic provision of abbreviated cross-references more robust in
+ InCollection, InProceedings, and Letter entries, improving the
+ behavior of the "postnote" field in certain corner cases, fixing
+ bugs in the handling of "pagination" and "bookpagination" fields,
+ and slightly altering the placement of the "addendum" field in
+ book-like entries to bring it closer to the Manual's specification.
+ A number of other, smaller improvements should also bring the
+ styles into closer conformity with the specification.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9b [2012-12-06]:
+
+ - This release contains a new variant of the author-date style,
+ available as the "authordate-trad" option when loading
+ biblatex-chicago. This provides the traditional, plain,
+ pre-16th-edition Chicago title handling -- sentence-style
+ capitalization, absence of quotation marks in Article titles and
+ the like -- but in all other respects follows the 16th-edition
+ specification, as suggested by the Manual (15.45). Remember that
+ the "headline" package option can be used to turn off the automatic
+ sentence-style capitalization, meaning that titles will appear as
+ presented in the .bib file, at least as far as capitalization is
+ concerned. Please see especially the documentation under "title"
+ in section 5.2 of biblatex-chicago.pdf for the details.
+
+ - I have updated calls to \DeclareLabelname and \DeclareLabelyear in
+ several .cbx files so that the package works correctly with the
+ most recent version (2.4) of biblatex.
+
+ - Following a request by Norman Gray, and adapting code by Audrey
+ Boruvka, I have included a \textcite (and a \textcites) command in
+ the notes & bibliography style for the first time.
+
+ - Following a request by Daniel Possenriede, I have added in all
+ three 16th-edition styles a new switch, "only", to the "doi"
+ option, which prints the "doi" field when present and the "url"
+ field only when there is no "doi." The package default remains,
+ however, "true".
+
+ - I am grateful to Baldur Kristinsson for providing an Icelandic
+ localization file for biblatex-chicago, called cms-icelandic.lbx.
+ You'll see if you look through it that it is still something of a
+ work in progress, but it should cover most needs in that language
+ very well. If you would like to fill in some of the gaps please
+ let me know.
+
+ - I am also grateful to Håkon Malmedal for providing Norwegian
+ localizations for biblatex-chicago, contained in the files
+ cms-norsk.lbx, cms-norwegian.lbx, and cms-nynorsk.lbx.
+
+ - I have added a new British localization, cms-british.lbx. The
+ "british" option to babel should now work without further
+ intervention. For further details on the usage of all these
+ localizations please see section 6 of biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - Several users have reported a bug that resulted in doubled
+ bibstrings in certain contexts. This happened only when using
+ localizations for which biblatex-chicago didn't have explicit
+ support, and it should now be fixed.
+
+ - I have changed the way the 16th-edition author-date styles handle
+ the Ibidem mechanism. In the absence of a "postnote" field you no
+ longer get empty parentheses, but rather a standard in-text
+ citation. If you do have a "postnote" field, then only that will
+ appear.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9a [2012-07-30]:
+
+ - I have made a few changes to biblatex-chicago.sty to allow the
+ package to work with the latest version (2.0) of biblatex. In all
+ other respects this release is identical to 0.9.9. If you do use
+ the package with biblatex 2.0, please let me know if there are
+ issues I need to address. Thanks to Charles Schaum for alerting me
+ to some of them.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.9 [2012-07-05]:
+
+This release contains, for the first time, the style files for the
+16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. If you wish to begin
+using the newest specification, then there are some changes you'll
+have to make to your .bib files, which I summarize here. First, I
+consider the notes & bibliography style, then author-date. After
+that, you can find a listing of more general changes to the package,
+followed by the changes I've made to the 15th-edition styles.
+
+Notes & Bibliography:
+
+ - The specification for Music entries has been significantly altered
+ for the new edition. You no longer need to worry about the
+ \textcircledP and \textcopyright signs in the "howpublished" field,
+ which will be silently ignored, and the "pubstate" field now
+ reverts to its usual function of identifying reprints or, in this
+ case, reissues. The spec really only requires a record label
+ ("series") and catalog number ("number"), though "publisher" is
+ still available if you need it. There is a new emphasis, finally,
+ on the dating of musical recordings, so that the "eventdate" gives
+ the recording date of a particular song or other portion of a
+ recording, the "origdate" the recording date of an entire album,
+ and the "date" the publishing date of that album. Please see the
+ full documentation in biblatex.pdf.
+
+ - The specification for Video entries has also been clarified. For
+ television series, the episode and series numbers go in
+ "booktitleaddon" instead of "titleaddon" and, as with Music
+ entries, the "eventdate" will hold the original broadcast date of
+ such an episode, or perhaps the recording/performance date of,
+ e.g., an opera on DVD. The "origdate" will still hold the original
+ release date of a film, and the "date" the publishing or copyright
+ date of the medium you are referencing. Please see the full
+ documentation in biblatex.pdf.
+
+ - You should add CustomC entries to provide bibliographical
+ cross-references from multiple pseudonyms back to the author's
+ name.
+
+ - In SuppBook entries, the Manual now requires you to provide the
+ page range (in the "pages" field) for the specific part you are
+ citing, e.g., an introduction, foreword, or afterword.
+
+ - In Patent entries, the Manual now prefers sentence-style
+ capitalization for titles, which you'll need to provide yourself by
+ hand.
+
+ - When a descriptive phrase is used as an "author," you can now omit
+ an initial definite or indefinite article, which will help with
+ alphabetization in the bibliography.
+
+ - A DOI is now preferred to a URL, if both are available.
+
+ - On the same subject, a revision date (or similar) is preferred to
+ an access date for online material. You can use the new "userd"
+ field to change the string introducing the "urldate," which
+ defaults to being an access date.
+
+ - Special imprints are now separated from their parent press by a
+ forward slash rather than a comma, so can just be added to the
+ "publisher" field with the usual keyword "and".
+
+ - I have implemented a reasonable, less-flexible facsimile of the
+ Biber-only command \DeclareLabelname which should work for those
+ using any backend. It allows biblatex to find a name for short
+ notes outside the standard name fields, including, notably, in the
+ "name[a-c]" fields. This should reduce the instances where you
+ need a "shortauthor" field to provide such a name.
+
+ - The Chicago-specific setting of another Biber-only command,
+ \DeclareSortingScheme=cms, allows non-standard fields to be
+ considered by biblatex's sorting algorithms, which should reduce
+ the instances where you need a "sortkey" or the like in your
+ entries. If you aren't using Biber, the package reverts to the
+ standard "nty" sorting scheme.
+
+Author-Date:
+
+ - All title fields now follow the rules for the notes & bibliography
+ style as far as punctuation, formatting, and capitalization are
+ concerned. Biblatex-chicago-authordate will deal with most of this
+ automatically, but if you have any hand formatting of lowercase
+ letters within curly braces in your .bib file, you will need to
+ restore the headline-style capitalization there. Also, you'll need
+ to be more careful when you provide quotation marks inside titles,
+ remembering to use \mkbibquote so that punctuation can be brought
+ inside nested quotation marks. These revisions will apply
+ particularly to "title," "booktitle," and "maintitle" fields.
+
+ - The one exception to these rules is in Patent entries, where
+ sentence-style capitalization of the "title" is now specified.
+ You'll have to provide this by hand yourself, as in the notes &
+ bibliography style.
+
+ - Because of these changes to title formatting, you'll need to
+ observe the difference between Article and Review entries, where
+ the latter contain generic, "Review of ..." titles and the former
+ standard, specific titles.
+
+ - The presentation of "shorthand" fields has changed. You no longer
+ need to use the CustomC entry type to include cross-references from
+ shorthands to expansions in the list of references. Now, simply
+ using a "shorthand" field in an entry places that "shorthand" in
+ citations and at the head of the entry in the list of references,
+ where it will be followed by its expansion within parentheses. The
+ new system will require help with sorting in the reference list --
+ placing the "shorthand" also in a "sortkey" should do the trick.
+
+ - On the subject of CustomC entries, the Manual now recommends using
+ cross-references in several contexts, particularly when a single
+ author uses more than one pseudonym. Adding CustomC entries makes
+ this happen.
+
+ - There have been significant changes when presenting book-like
+ entries with more than one date. If you are using the "cmsdate=on"
+ option, or indeed simply placing the earlier date in the "date"
+ field and the later one in "origdate," the presentation will be the
+ same as before, but you should understand that the Manual no longer
+ recommends this "origdate"-only style. It prefers, instead, to
+ present either the "date" alone or both dates in citations and at
+ the head of reference list entries. When presenting both dates,
+ there is now no longer a choice between the "old" and "new" options
+ for "cmsdate," but only the "both" option. If you have "old" or
+ "new" in your .bib files, they will be treated as synonyms of
+ "both".
+
+ - The specification for Music entries has been significantly altered
+ for the new edition. You no longer need to worry about the
+ \textcircledP and \textcopyright signs in the "howpublished" field,
+ which will be silently ignored, and the "pubstate" field reverts to
+ its more usual function of identifying reprints or, in this case,
+ reissues. The spec really only requires a record label ("series")
+ and catalog number ("number"), though "publisher" is still
+ available if you need it. There is a new emphasis, finally, on the
+ dating of musical recordings, which means that such entries will
+ fit better with the author-date style. It also means that I have
+ had to redefine the various date fields. The "eventdate" gives the
+ recording date of a particular song or other portion of a
+ recording, the "origdate" the recording date of an entire album,
+ and the "date" the publishing date of that album. The earlier date
+ is the one that will appear in citations and at the head of
+ reference list entries. Please see the full documentation in
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - The specification for Video entries has also been clarified. For
+ television series, the episode and series numbers go in
+ "booktitleaddon" instead of "titleaddon" and, as with Music
+ entries, the "eventdate" will hold the original broadcast date of
+ such an episode, or perhaps the recording/performance date of,
+ e.g., an opera on DVD. The "origdate" will still hold the original
+ release date of a film, and the "date" the publishing or copyright
+ date of the medium you are referencing. The earlier date, once
+ again, is the one that will appear in citations and at the head of
+ reference list entries. Please see the full documentation in
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - In SuppBook entries, the Manual now requires you to provide the
+ page range (in the "pages" field) for the specific part you are
+ citing, e.g., an introduction, foreword, or afterword.
+
+ - The author-date style now prefers longer bibstrings in the list of
+ references, bringing it into line with the notes & bibliography
+ style. Generally, the package will take care of this for you, but
+ if you've been using abbreviated strings in "note" fields, for
+ example, you may want to change them so that they conform with the
+ strings the package provides. In some circumstances the \partedit
+ macro, and its relatives, may help.
+
+ - When a descriptive phrase is used as an "author," you can now omit
+ an initial definite or indefinite article, which will help with
+ alphabetization in the bibliography.
+
+ - A DOI is now preferred to a URL, if both are available.
+
+ - On the same subject, a revision date (or similar) is preferred to
+ an access date for online material. You can use the new "userd"
+ field to change the string introducing the "urldate," which
+ defaults to being an access date.
+
+ - Special imprints are now separated from their parent press by a
+ forward slash rather than a comma, so can just be added to the
+ "publisher" field with the usual keyword "and".
+
+ - The 16th edition of the Manual is less than enthusiastic about the
+ use of "Anon." as the "author," preferring instead that the "title"
+ or the "journaltitle" take its place. If you do decide to get rid
+ of "Anon.," new facilities provided by Biber -- see next entry --
+ should mean that biblatex no longer requires assistance when
+ alphabetizing such author-less entries.
+
+ - The Chicago-specific setting of the Biber-only command,
+ \DeclareSortingScheme=cms, allows non-standard fields to be
+ considered by biblatex's sorting algorithms, which should reduce
+ the instances where you need a "sortkey" or the like in your
+ entries.
+
+ - The Chicago-specific setting of the Biber-only command
+ \DeclareLabelname allows biblatex to find a name ("label") for
+ citations outside the standard name fields, including, notably, in
+ the "name[a-c]" fields. This should reduce the instances where you
+ need a "shortauthor" field to provide such a name.
+
+Other New Features:
+
+ - For reprinted books, you can now present more detailed publishing
+ information about the original edition using the new "origlocation"
+ and "origpublisher" fields. You can also use the "origlocation" in
+ Letter or Misc (with "entrysubtype") entries to identify where a
+ published or unpublished letter was written. These uses apply to
+ both Chicago styles.
+
+ - Thanks to a patch sent by Kazuo Teramoto, you can now take
+ advantage of biblatex's facilities for citing "eprint" resources.
+ There is also a new "eprint" option, set to "true" by default,
+ which controls the printing of this field in both Chicago styles.
+ You can set the option both in the preamble and in the "options"
+ field of individual entries. The field will always print in Online
+ entries.
+
+ - I have added a new citation command, \citejournal, to the notes &
+ bibliography style to allow you to present journal articles using
+ an alternative short note form, which may be a clearer form of
+ reference in certain circumstances. Such short notes will present
+ the name of the "author," the "journaltitle," and the "volume"
+ information.
+
+ - I have included a very slightly modified version of the standard
+ biblatex \citeauthor command, which may be useful for references to
+ works from classical antiquity.
+
+ - I have added a new "cmsdate=full" switch to the author-date style,
+ which only affects citations in the text, and means that a full
+ date specification will appear there, rather than just the year.
+ If you follow the Manual's recommendations concerning newspaper and
+ magazine articles only appearing in running text and not in the
+ reference list, this option will help.
+
+ - I have added a new "avdate" option to the author-date style, set to
+ "true" by default in biblatex-chicago.sty. This changes the
+ default setting of \DeclareLabelyear in Music, Review, and Video
+ entries to take account of specialized instructions in the Manual
+ for finding dates to appear in citations and at the head of
+ reference list entries. Setting "avdate=false" in the options when
+ you load biblatex-chicago restores the default settings for all
+ entry types.
+
+ - The Manual has added recommendations for citing blogs, which
+ generally will need an Article entry with "magazine"
+ "entrysubtype." You can identify a blog as such by placing "blog"
+ in the "location" field. If you want to cite a comment to a blog
+ or to other online material, the Review entry type, "entrysubtype"
+ "magazine" will serve. The "eventdate" dates the comment, and any
+ timestamp that is required can go in "nameaddon." These
+ instructions work in both styles.
+
+ - Photographs are no longer presented differently from other sorts of
+ artworks so, in effect, in both styles, the Image type is now a
+ clone of Artwork, though retained for backward compatibility.
+
+ - Following a request by Kenneth Pearce, I have added new facilities
+ for presenting "shorthands" in both Chicago styles. In both, there
+ are two new "bibenvironments" which you can set using the "env"
+ option to the \printshorthands command: "losnotes" formats the list
+ of shorthands so that it can be presented in a footnote, while
+ "losendnotes" does the same for endnotes. In both styles, there is
+ a new preamble option, "shorthandfull", which prints the full
+ bibliographical information of each entry inside the list of
+ shorthands, allowing such a list effectively to replace a
+ bibliography or list of references. In the author-date style, you
+ need to set the "cmslos=false" option as well, in order for this to
+ work. In the notes & bibliography style, I have added a new
+ citation command, \shorthandcite, which prints the "shorthand" even
+ for the first citation of a given work.
+
+ - Following suggestions by Roger Hart, I have implemented three new
+ field-exclusion options in the notes & bibliography style. In all
+ three cases, the field in question will always appear in the
+ bibliography, but not in long notes, which may help to save space.
+ The fields at stake are "addendum," "note," and "series,"
+ controlled respectively by the new "addendum", "notefield", and
+ "bookseries" options. All of these are set to "true" using the new
+ "completenotes" option in chicago-notes.cbx, but you can change the
+ settings either in the preamble or in the "options" field of
+ individual entries. Please see the documentation of these options
+ in biblatex-chicago.pdf for details on which entry types are
+ excluded from their scope.
+
+ - Thanks to a coding suggestion from Gildas Hamel, I have redefined
+ the \bibnamedash in biblatex-chicago.sty, which should now by
+ default look a little better in a wider variety of fonts.
+
+ - At the request of Baldur Kristinsson, I have added
+ \DeclareLanguageMapping commands to biblatex-chicago.sty for all
+ the languages biblatex-chicago provides. If you load the style in
+ the standard way, you no longer need to provide these mappings
+ manually yourself.
+
+ - I have improved the date handling in both styles, particularly with
+ regard to date ranges.
+
+Changes to the 15th-edition styles:
+
+ - To continue using the 15th-edition styles, for whatever reason,
+ please remember to specify either "notes15" or "authordate15" when
+ loading biblatex-chicago in your preamble.
+
+ - For reprinted books, you can now present more detailed information
+ about the original edition using the new "origlocation" and
+ "origpublisher" fields. You can also use this field in Letter or
+ Misc (with "entrysubtype") entries to give the place where a
+ published or unpublished letter was written. These uses apply to
+ both styles.
+
+ - Thanks to a patch sent by Kazuo Teramoto, you can now take
+ advantage of biblatex's facilities for citing "eprint" resources,
+ but only in the author-date style. There is also a new "eprint"
+ option, set to "true" by default, which controls the printing of
+ this field. You can set the option both in the preamble and in the
+ "options" field of individual entries. The field will always print
+ in Online entries.
+
+ - I have added a new citation command, \citejournal, to the notes &
+ bibliography style to allow you to present journal articles using
+ an alternative short note form, which may be a clearer form of
+ reference in certain circumstances. Such short notes will present
+ the name of the "author," the "journaltitle," and the "volume"
+ information.
+
+ - I have included a very slightly modified version of the standard
+ biblatex \citeauthor command, which may be useful for references to
+ works from classical antiquity.
+
+ - I have added a new "cmsdate=full" switch to the author-date style,
+ which only affects citations in the text, and means that a full
+ date specification will appear there, rather than just the year.
+ If you follow the Manual's recommendations concerning newspaper and
+ magazine articles only appearing in running text and not in the
+ reference list, this option will help.
+
+ - I have provided a new option, "headline", which turns off the
+ automatic transformations that produce sentence-style
+ capitalization in the title fields of the author-date style. If
+ you set this option, the word case in your title fields will not be
+ changed in any way, that is, this doesn't automatically transform
+ your titles into headline-style, but rather allows the .bib file to
+ determine capitalization.
+
+ - Following a request by Kenneth Pearce, I have added new facilities
+ for presenting "shorthands" in the author-date style. There are
+ two new "bibenvironments" which you can set using the "env" option
+ to the \printshorthands command: "losnotes" formats the list of
+ shorthands so that it can be presented in a footnote, while
+ "losendnotes" does the same for endnotes. There is also a new
+ preamble option, "shorthandfull", which prints the full
+ bibliographical information of each entry inside the list of
+ shorthands, allowing such a list effectively to replace a list of
+ references. You need to set the "cmslos=false" option as well in
+ order for this to work.
+
+ - Thanks to a coding suggestion from Gildas Hamel, I have redefined
+ the \bibnamedash in biblatex-chicago.sty, which should now by
+ default look a little better in a wider variety of fonts.
+
+ - At the request of Baldur Kristinsson, I have added
+ \DeclareLanguageMapping commands to biblatex-chicago.sty for all
+ the languages biblatex-chicago provides. If you load the style in
+ the standard way, you no longer need to provide these mappings
+ manually yourself.
+
+ - I have improved the date handling in both styles, particularly with
+ regard to date ranges.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.8d [2011-11-15]:
+
+ - Some minor fixes to both styles for compatibility with biblatex
+ 1.7.
+
+ - Kenneth Pearce found an error in the formatting of BookInBook
+ titles in the author-date style's list of shorthands. This should
+ work properly now.
+
+ - Jonathan Robinson spotted some inconsistencies in the way the notes
+ & bibliography style interacts with the hyperref package.
+ Following his suggestion, short notes now point to long notes when
+ the latter are available, but to bibliography entries instead when
+ you have given the "short" option to biblatex-chicago.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.8c [2011-10-12]:
+
+ - Emil Salim pointed out some rather basic errors in the presentation
+ of InProceedings and Proceedings entries, errors that have been
+ present from the first release of the style(s). These should now,
+ belatedly, have been put right. This doesn't require any changes
+ to your .bib files.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.8b [2011-09-29]:
+
+ - Christian Boesch alerted me to some bad date-formatting errors
+ produced when using the styles with the "german" option to babel.
+ A little further investigation revealed similar problems with
+ "french," and before long it became clear that date handling in
+ biblatex-chicago was generally, and significantly, sub-optimal.
+ The whole system should now be more robust and more accurate.
+
+ - The new date-handling code shouldn't require any changes to your
+ .bib files, but users of the author-date style may want to have a
+ look at the documentation of the Letter and Misc entry types, and
+ of the four date fields, for some information about how the changes
+ could simplify the creation of their databases.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.8a [2011-09-21]:
+
+ - Fixed a series of unsightly errors in the author-date style,
+ discovered while working on the pending update to the 16th edition.
+
+ - Fixed bugs uncovered in both the author-date and the notes &
+ bibliography styles thanks to Charles Schaum's adventurous use of
+ the "origyear" field.
+
+ - Added two new bibstrings to the cms-*.lbx files to fix potential
+ bugs in some of the audiovisual entry types.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.8 [2011-08-31]:
+
+ - Starting with biblatex version 1.5, in order to adhere to the
+ author-date specification you will need to use Biber to process
+ your .bib files, as BibTeX (and its more recent variants) will no
+ longer provide all the required features. Unfortunately, however,
+ the current release of Biber (0.9.5) contains bugs that make it
+ tricky to use with biblatex-chicago. These bugs have been
+ addressed in 0.9.6 beta, which is available for various operating
+ systems in the development subdirectory of your SourceForge mirror,
+ e.g., ... b/project/bi/biblatex-biber/biblatex-biber/development.
+ (If, by the time you read this, Biber 0.9.6 has already been
+ released, then so much the better.) Please see the start of
+ cms-dates-sample.pdf for more details.
+
+ - The switch to Biber for the author-date specification means that
+ biblatex now provides considerably enhanced handling of the various
+ date fields. I have attempted to document the relevant changes in
+ cms-dates-sample.pdf and in the "date" discussion in
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf, but in my testing the only alterations I've
+ so far had to make to my .bib files involve adhering more closely
+ to the instructions for specifying date ranges. Biber doesn't like
+ {1968/75}, and will ignore it. Either use {1968/1975} or put
+ {1968--75} in the "year" field.
+
+ - In the notes & bibliography style, and mainly in Article, Letter,
+ Misc, and Review entries, previous releases of biblatex-chicago
+ recommended using the \isdot macro when you needed both to define a
+ field and not have it appear in the printed output. This mechanism
+ no longer works in biblatex 1.6, and while addressing the problem I
+ realized that relying on it covered over some inconsistencies and
+ bugs in my code, so from this release forward you will need to
+ modify your .bib and .tex files to use other, more standard
+ mechanisms to achieve the same ends, in particular the
+ \headlesscite commands and declaring "useauthor=false" in the
+ "options" field. Please consult the documentation in
+ biblatex-chicago.pdf section 4.3.1, s.v. "isdot," for a list of
+ example entries where you can see these changes at work.
+
+ - The 16th-edition files are well under way, but still a work in
+ progress.
+
+Other changes in 0.9.8:
+
+ - Fixed the \smartcite citation command in, and added a \smartcites
+ command to, chicago-notes.cbx, so that the notes & bibliography
+ style no longer prints parentheses around citations produced using
+ \autocite(s) commands inside \footnote commands. Many thanks to
+ Louis-Dominique Dubeau for pointing out this error.
+
+ - Fixed a problem with the \lbx@fromlang command, which biblatex 1.6
+ no longer defines. Many thanks to Rembrandt Wolpert and Aaron
+ Lambert for pointing this out, and to Charles Schaum for posting a
+ temporary workaround in a newsgroup post.
+
+ - Version 1.6 of biblatex no longer allows you to redefine the
+ "minnames" and "maxnames" options in the \printbibliography
+ command, so I've defined "minbibnames" and "maxbibnames" in
+ biblatex-chicago.sty, instead. These parameters have been
+ available since version 1.1, so this is now the earliest version of
+ biblatex that will work with the Chicago styles. Of course, if the
+ (Chicago-recommended) values of these options don't suit your
+ needs, you can redefine them in your document preamble.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.7a [2011-03-17]:
+
+ - Added the \smartcite citation command to chicago-notes.cbx so that
+ the notes & bibliography style will work with biblatex 1.3.
+
+ - Added bibstrings "byconductor" and "cbyconductor" to the .lbx
+ files, mistakenly omitted in version 0.9.7.
+
+ - Minor fixes to the docs.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.7 [2011-02-15]:
+
+ - The CustomA and CustomB entry types are now obsolete. Any such
+ entry in your .bib files will be ignored. Please use Letter and
+ BookInBook, respectively.
+
+ - If you still have any CustomC entries containing introductions,
+ afterwords, or the like, please change them to SuppBook, as I have
+ reclaimed CustomC in order to provide alphabetized cross-references
+ to other, separate entries in a bibliography or list of references.
+
+ - The directory structure of the package archive has changed. I've
+ copied that used by the biblatex package, so now you will find a
+ latex/ directory with further bbx/, cbx/, and lbx/ subdirectories,
+ and a doc/ directory with an examples/ subdirectory. The files are
+ the same as in the previous release, merely organized differently.
+
+Other changes in 0.9.7:
+
+ - I have added three new audiovisual entry types to both styles,
+ Audio, Music, and Video. The documentation of Audio in sections
+ 4.1 and 5.1 of biblatex-chicago.pdf contains an overview of the
+ three, and the details for each type are to be found under their
+ individual headings.
+
+ - I have added several new bibstrings to the cms-*.lbx files for
+ these new audiovisual entry types. This means that the
+ "editortype" fields can now be set to "director," "producer," or
+ "conductor," depending on your needs. You can also set the fields
+ to "none," which eliminates all identifying strings, and which is
+ useful for identifying performers of various sorts.
+
+ - I have transformed the CustomC entry type to enable alphabetized
+ cross-references -- the "c" is meant to be mnemonic -- to other,
+ separate entries in a reference list or bibliography. In
+ particular, this facilitates cross-references to other names in a
+ list, rather than to other works. In author-date, in a procedure
+ recommended by the Manual, this now allows you to expand shorthands
+ inside the reference list rather than in a list of shorthands. In
+ both styles, you can now provide a pointer to the main entry if a
+ reader is looking an author up under, e.g., a pseudonym or other
+ alternative name.
+
+ - I have introduced the "userc" field, intended to simplify the
+ printing of the cross-references provided by CustomC entries. The
+ standard \nocite command works as well, but the additional
+ mechanism may be more convenient in some circumstances.
+
+ - You can now provide an "eventdate" field in Music entries to
+ identify, e.g., a particular recording session. It will be printed
+ just after the "title."
+
+ - In the notes & bibliography style, I have now implemented the
+ "shorthandintro" field, which allows you to change the string
+ introducing a shorthand in the first, long note. It works just as
+ it does in the standard biblatex styles.
+
+ - I have added six new field-exclusion options to both styles, all of
+ which can be set both in the document preamble and/or in the
+ "options" field of individual .bib entries. Three of these --
+ "doi," "isbn," and "url" -- are standard biblatex options, the
+ others -- "bookpages," "includeall," and "numbermonth" -- are
+ chicago-specific.
+
+ - I've added the "juniorcomma" option to both styles, which can be
+ set in the document preamble and/or in the "options" field of
+ individual entries. It allows you get the traditional comma
+ between a surname and "Jr." or "Sr."
+
+ - I fixed some old inaccuracies in the syntax of shortened notes and
+ bibliography entries presenting multiple contributions to one
+ multi-author (or single-author) volume. For the most part the
+ changes won't affect your .bib files, but there may be cases where
+ you need to choose your entry types carefully in order to get the
+ results you want. For the details, please consult the "crossref"
+ docs in section 4.2 of biblatex-chicago.pdf.
+
+ - Several other bug fixes -- see biblatex-chicago.pdf for details.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.5a [2010-09-07]:
+
+ - This fixes an elementary and show-stopping mistake in
+ biblatex-chicago.sty, a mistake disguised if you use the csquotes
+ package, which I do in all my test files. Many thanks to Israel
+ Jacques and Emil Salim for pointing this out to me.
+
+ - These files have now been tested with biblatex 0.9c and 0.9d, which
+ both work fine.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9.5 [2010-09-03]:
+
+Users upgrading from biblatex-chicago-notes-df may need to alter a few
+things in their .bib files and in their document preambles.
+
+ - If you used \usepackage{biblatex-chicago} to load the package, now
+ you need \usepackage[notes]{biblatex-chicago} instead. (The
+ default if you don't choose between "notes" and "authordate" is, in
+ fact, "notes," so even if you don't make this change it should all
+ still work.)
+
+ - If you used \usepackage[style=chicago-notes-df]{biblatex} to load
+ the package, then be aware that you now need style=chicago-notes
+ (or style=chicago-authordate) instead.
+
+ - If you are still, for some reason, using the \custpunctc macro in
+ your .bib files, it is now obsolete. Its function has been taken
+ by the punctuation-tracking code present in biblatex for a long
+ while now.
+
+ - I have slightly improved the Misc entry type that uses an
+ "entrysubtype." If you are citing archival letters or other
+ letter-like sources (memoranda, reports, telegrams), then you're
+ already using the "origdate" field, and that's still correct. If
+ you're citing non-letter-like sources (interviews, wills,
+ contracts, personal communications received by yourself), then
+ putting the date into the "date" field will slightly improve
+ compliance with the specification, at least as I interpret it.
+ Nothing untoward will happen if you don't make this change, and the
+ distinction can be difficult to draw, but it needed mentioning
+ nonetheless.
+
+ - I've improved the "number" field in Article, Periodical, and Review
+ entries. You can now put a series or range of numbers into the
+ field and the style will print them prefixed by the appropriate
+ bibstring, singular or plural.
+
+ - I've improved author-less Manual, Article, and Review entries (the
+ latter two with magazine "entrysubtype"). In previous releases of
+ biblatex-chicago-notes-df you needed a "shortauthor" field to make
+ sure either the "organization" (in Manual entries) or the
+ "journaltitle" (in Article and Review entries) appeared in short
+ notes. The style now automatically takes a name for short notes
+ from those fields, though you can still use "shortauthor" if you
+ wish to present it differently, e.g., in an abbreviated form.
+ Again, you probably needn't change anything in your .bib files, but
+ being aware of this may make entries simpler to construct in the
+ future.
+
+ - I've marked the Custom[A-C] entry types as deprecated, in
+ preparation for reusing them for other purposes in the next major
+ release. Please change CustomA to Letter, CustomB to BookInBook,
+ and CustomC to SuppBook in your .bib files.
+
+Other changes in 0.9.5:
+
+ - The Chicago author-date style is now implemented in the package,
+ and therefore the package name has changed to biblatex-chicago. A
+ number of the files inside the package also have altered names --
+ the README file and biblatex-chicago.pdf contain the complete list.
+
+ - I've now implemented the biblatex field "pubstate" in both styles.
+ In the author-date style, it is strongly recommended you use it to
+ identify reprints by putting the string "reprint" there. The
+ requirements for formatting such entries are relatively complex,
+ and the style does the right thing automatically. In the notes &
+ bibliography style, you can also use the field in the same way to
+ identify reprints, though placing the \reprint macro in the
+ "location" field still works as it always has. Don't, please, use
+ both methods in the same entry.
+
+ - I've improved the functioning of Patent entries to make them more
+ compliant with the specification.
+
+ - Entries with a classical "entrysubtype" may behave slightly
+ differently now, as I've improved the provision of punctuation
+ before certain kinds of page or location specifiers even when
+ citing works by their traditional divisions. This should, once
+ again, make the package more compliant.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9a [2010-03-20]:
+
+ - Small, quick fixes for immediate compatibility with biblatex 0.9a.
+
+Release notes for version 0.9 [2010-03-18]:
+
+As I noted in the README file, users will have to modify their .bib
+files somewhat to work properly with this release of biblatex-chicago.
+Some of these changes result from the disappearance of certain fields
+in biblatex itself -- particularly the "day" and "origyear" fields --
+so you should at least skim through Lehman's RELEASE file first to
+familiarize yourself with what it means for your setup. The changes
+required for Chicago are as follows:
+
+ - In CustomA (Letter) entries, the counter-intuitive reversal of
+ roles between "year" and "origyear" has been eliminated. In common
+ with other entry types, the "year" (or "date") field now refers to
+ the publication date of the collection. The new "origdate" field
+ now holds the date the letter was written. In short, change the
+ "date" (or "year," "month," and "day") to "origdate," and change
+ "origyear" to "year" (or "date").
+
+ - In Misc entries with an "entrysubtype," used to cite unpublished
+ sources from a named archive, exactly the same reversal of roles
+ was in place, and is now eliminated. The new "origdate" field now
+ holds the date the letter was written or the interview conducted,
+ so change the "date" (or "year," "month," and "day") to "origdate."
+ (Under most circumstances, therefore, such entries won't have a
+ "date" field defined.) Also, the use of the exact string "letter"
+ in the "entrysubtype" field is no longer required. Using
+ "origdate" prints the date where you want it, so anything at all in
+ "entrysubtype" will do the trick, with "letter" being as good as
+ anything else, meaning you don't actually have to modify this
+ field.
+
+ - In Patent entries, you need to make similar changes. The
+ "origdate" field now holds the date the patent was filed, and the
+ "date" field identifies when the patent was granted, if it was
+ granted. You no longer need a specially-formatted "addendum" field
+ for these entries. In short, change the "date" (or "year,"
+ "month," and "day") to "origdate," and put the date from the
+ "addendum" field into "date." Any supplemental information you
+ want printed after the dates of the patent can still be given in
+ the "addendum" field, but most such entries won't require this.
+
+ - The "userd" field is now obsolete. If by some chance you are still
+ using it, please move any information found there into the
+ "edition" field.
+
+Other changes in 0.9:
+
+ - Added the files cms-german.lbx (with its clone cms-ngerman.lbx) and
+ cms-french.lbx, which allow the creation of Chicago-like references
+ in those languages.
+
+ - Added the package option "annotation" to allow the creation of
+ annotated bibliographies.
+
+ - Added the new biblatex BookInBook entry type, which functions as an
+ alias to CustomB.
+
+ - Following biblatex's example, using the editortype field now turns
+ off the package's usual string concatenation mechanisms.
+
+ - Added support for the new editor[a-c] and editor[a-c]type fields,
+ which function as they do in the standard biblatex styles.
+
+ - My modified csquotes.cfg file is now obsolete, and has been removed
+ from the package. Please upgrade to the latest version of
+ csquotes.
+
+ - Added bibstrings to help with internationalization. The new ones
+ you might use in a .bib file are: pseudonym, nodate,
+ revisededition, numbers, and reviewof.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.9d [2010-02-16]:
+
+ - Bug fix release, the last in the 0.8.9 series, intended for use
+ with biblatex 0.8i, _not_ with 0.9. See note above.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.9c [2009-11-04]:
+
+ - Bug fix release. The details are in biblatex-chicago-notes-df.pdf.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.9b [2009-09-09]:
+
+ - Fixed several bugs, both recent and venerable. Please upgrade to
+ the latest version of biblatex (0.8h at time of writing), though I
+ have attempted to maintain backward compatibility at least with
+ 0.8e.
+
+ - Experimental version of the "reprinttitle" field, which allows you
+ to provide original publication details of essays or chapters you
+ are citing from a later reprint. See the pdf file for all the
+ details.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.9a [2009-07-05]:
+
+ - Minor fixes to allow compatibility with biblatex 0.8e. The package
+ still works with 0.8d and 0.8c, as well.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.9 [2009-07-02]:
+
+ - The default way of loading the package has changed. Please see the
+ documentation for all the details, but in short, if you used to
+ load it with a command like:
+
+ \usepackage[style=chicago-notes-df,further-options]{biblatex}
+
+ you should now load it like so:
+
+ \usepackage[further-options]{biblatex-chicago}
+
+ - All single-letter bibstrings are now obsolete. Please use \autocap
+ instead
+
+ - You should be using at least biblatex version 0.8c. 0.8d would be
+ even better.
+
+ - The package-specific bibstrings have been removed from the .cbx and
+ .bbx files and gathered in a new file, cms-american.lbx. This
+ changes somewhat the way the package interacts with babel, making
+ it simpler if you want the defaults, but more complicated if you
+ require non-standard features. In short, assuming you use the
+ default loading option I've just described, then babel's main text
+ language can be american or english, or alternately you can turn
+ off babel altogether, and the strings should be available
+ automatically.
+
+ - Added two new entry types, Artwork and Image.
+
+ - Added a new bibliography and entry option usecompiler, set to true
+ by default in biblatex-chicago.sty.
+
+ - Added the new bibliography option footmarkoff to
+ biblatex-chicago.sty. This turns off the optional formatting of
+ marks (in-line instead of superscript) on foot- or endnotes,
+ returning you to the LaTeX defaults.
+
+ - Added the new citation command \headlesscite, which works like
+ \headlessfullcite but allows biblatex to decide whether to print
+ the full or the short version of the reference.
+
+ - Adopted biblatex's end-of-entry punctuation system, which fixes
+ issues several users have been seeing with the solution I offered
+ in previous releases.
+
+ - Added a modified csquotes.cfg file (in the XeLaTeX subdirectory) to
+ address issues users were having when using XeLaTeX with
+ biblatex-chicago. Please see the docs for the details.
+
+ - Added a new shorthandibid option that allows you to print "Ibid."
+ after repeated references to an entry which contains a shorthand
+ field. Previously, the shorthand itself would always be printed,
+ and this behavior remains the default if you don't set this option.
+
+ - Added a clone of biblatex's natbib option, so that users who use
+ \usepackage{biblatex-chicago} instead of \usepackage{biblatex} can
+ still have access to the biblatex's natbib compatibility code in
+ bibnatex.def.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.5a [2009-06-14]:
+
+ - Quick and dirty fix to allow compatibility with biblatex 0.8d.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.5 [2009-01-10]:
+
+ - At least version 0.8b of biblatex now required -- even better, get
+ the latest (0.8c).
+
+ - Adopted the "American" punctuation tracker provided by biblatex,
+ which fixes many small formatting errors and eliminates the need
+ for \custpunct commands, but requires that you use \mkbibquote when
+ quoted material appears inside a bibliography field.
+
+ - Loading babel with "American" as the main text language now
+ _strongly_ recommended.
+
+ - The CustomC entry type now allows referencing any sort of post- or
+ pre-matter via the type field, though the old mechanism remains in
+ place for backward compatibility. The new SuppBook and
+ SuppCollection entry types are aliased to CustomC, and therefore
+ work in exactly the same way.
+
+ - The new SuppPeriodical entry type is aliased to Review, and Letter
+ to CustomA.
+
+ - For InReference entries the postnote field of a citation command is
+ now automatically treated as an alphabetized encyclopedia entry,
+ that is, it will be placed in quotation marks and prefaced with the
+ string "s.v." This may allow multiple citations of the same
+ reference work without multiplying .bib entries.
+
+ - The biblatex option "usetranslator" is now set to "true" by
+ default, which means entries will automatically be alphabetized by
+ their translator in the absence of an author or an editor.
+
+ - I've added some color-coding to biblatex-chicago-notes-df.pdf to
+ highlight new or significantly revised sections.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.2.2 [2008-11-24]:
+
+ - Fixed spurious commas in some bibliography entries.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.2 [2008-11-03]:
+
+ - Fixed several formatting glitches between citations in multicite
+ commands and also after some prenotes.
+
+Changelog for version 0.8.1 [2008-10-22]:
+
+ - Updated the .bbx and .cbx files to work with biblatex 0.8. This
+ most recent version of biblatex is now required for
+ biblatex-chicago-notes-df to work.
+
+ - The origlocation field is now obsolete, and has been replaced by
+ lista. Please update your .bib files accordingly.
+
+ - The single-letter \bibstring commands I provided in version 0.7 are
+ now deprecated. In most cases, you'll be able to take advantage of
+ the automatic contextual capitalization facilities introduced in
+ this release, but if you still need the single-letter \bibstring
+ functionality then you should switch to \autocap, as I shall be
+ removing the single-letter bibstrings in a future release. See the
+ \autocap docs for all the details.
+
+ - The userd field is now deprecated, as biblatex 0.8 allows all forms
+ of data to be included in the edition field. I shall be removing
+ userd in a future release, so please update your .bib files as soon
+ as is convenient.
+
+ - Added the usera field, which holds supplemental information about a
+ journaltitle in article and review entries. See the documentation
+ of the field for details.
+
+ - Other minor fixes and additions. See the full changelog for more.
+
+Changelog for version 0.7 [2008-08-18]:
+
+ - First public release
+
+Copyright (c) 2008-2018 David Fussner. This package is
+author-maintained. This work may be copied, distributed and/or
+modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License,
+either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later
+version. The latest version of this license is in
+http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part
+of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later. This
+software is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind, either
+expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied
+warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.