biblatex-chicago (18aug14)

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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/README
index 0ca6def1b0f..d101a1b3962 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/README
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/README
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
 IMPORTANT NOTE:
 
 This is the package formerly known as biblatex-chicago-notes-df.  It
-works best with the latest version (2.8a) of biblatex, and may not
-work well or at all with earlier versions.  It contains both the 15th-
-and 16th-edition Chicago style files, though I am now marking the
-15th-edition styles as "strongly deprecated" and am concentrating my
-development time on the 16th edition.  If you have used the package
-before, then you should be sure to consult the RELEASE file to find
-out what alterations you may need to make to your .bib files and
-document preambles to bring them up to date.  Most particularly please
-note that Biber is now required for the author-date styles, and very
-strongly advised for the notes & bibliography style (version 1.8 is
-designed for use with the latest biblatex).
+works best with the latest version (2.9a) of biblatex, and may not
+work well or at all with earlier (or future) versions.  It contains
+both the 15th- and 16th-edition Chicago style files, though I am now
+marking the 15th-edition styles as "strongly deprecated" and am
+concentrating my development time on the 16th edition.  If you have
+used the package before, then you should be sure to consult the
+RELEASE file to find out what alterations you may need to make to your
+.bib files and document preambles to bring them up to date.  Most
+particularly please note that Biber is now required for the
+author-date styles, and very strongly advised for the notes &
+bibliography style (version 1.9 is designed for use with the latest
+biblatex).
 
-README (version 0.9.9e, 2014-01-29):
+README (version 0.9.9f, 2014-08-15):
 
 Biblatex-chicago contains five biblatex styles implementing the
 specifications of the Chicago Manual of Style in both its 15th and
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE
index 6ab746cfc10..0eb5d1a3b8c 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE
@@ -1,3 +1,98 @@
+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
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago.pdf
index 61b3628bd47..93656cad910 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago.pdf
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago.tex
index d0aaa942d26..1749443c14e 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago.tex
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
   Style files for biblatex
 
 \vspace{.3\baselineskip}
-\sffamily\normalsize\bfseries David Fussner\qquad Version 0.9.9e (beta) \\
+\sffamily\normalsize\bfseries David Fussner\qquad Version 0.9.9f (beta) \\
 \href{mailto:djf027@googlemail.com}{djf027@googlemail.com}\\ \today
 
 \end{center} 
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ author-date styles produce a short, in-text citation inside
 parentheses --- (Author Year) --- keyed to a list of references where
 entries start with the same name and year.
 
-\enlargethispage{-2\baselineskip}
+\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace The documentation you are reading covers all three of
 these Chicago styles and their variants.  Much of what follows is
@@ -146,22 +146,23 @@ sections~\ref{sec:Spec} and \ref{sec:authdate}.  Information provided
 under one style will often duplicate that found under the other, but
 efficiency's loss should, I hope, be clarity's gain, and much of what
 you learn using one style will be applicable without alteration to the
-other.  Within the author-date section, the
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}} information really only appears
-separately in section~\ref{sec:fields:authdate}, s.v.\
-\enquote{title.} Throughout the documentation, any \mycolor{green}
-text \colmarginpar{\textsf{New!}} indicates something \mycolor{new} in
-this release.
+other.  Within the author-date section, the \textsf{authordate-trad}
+information really only appears separately in
+section~\ref{sec:fields:authdate}, s.v.\ \enquote{title.} Throughout
+the documentation, any \mycolor{green} text
+\colmarginpar{\textsf{New!}} indicates something \mycolor{new} in this
+release.
 
 \mylittlespace Here's a list of things you will need in order to use
 \textsf{biblatex-chicago}:
 
 \begin{itemize}{}{}
-\item Philipp Lehman's \textsf{biblatex} package, of course!  You must
-  use the latest version(s) --- 1.7 or 2.8a at the time of writing ---
-  as my code relies on features and bug fixes only available in the
-  most recent release.  Lehman's tools require several packages, and
-  he strongly recommends several more:
+\item Philipp Lehman's \textsf{biblatex} package, of course!  You
+  should use the current version(s) --- 1.7 or 2.9a at the time of
+  writing --- as my code has been most extensively tested with, and
+  relies on features and bug fixes only available in, this current
+  release.  Lehman's tools require several packages, and he strongly
+  recommends several more:
   \begin{itemize}{}{}
   \item e-\TeX\ (required)
   \item \textsf{etoolbox} --- available from CTAN (required)
@@ -184,7 +185,7 @@ this release.
     use the following:
   \item \textsf{Biber} --- the next-generation \textsc{Bib}\TeX\
     replacement, which is available from SourceForge.  You should use
-    the latest version, 1.8, to work with \textsf{biblatex} 2.8a and
+    the latest version, 1.9, to work with \textsf{biblatex} 2.9a and
     \textsf{biblatex-chicago}, and it is required for users who are
     either using the author-date styles or processing a .bib file in
     Unicode.  See \textsf{cms-dates-sample.pdf} and, for example, the
@@ -202,7 +203,7 @@ this release.
   \end{quote}
   to load the author-date style, or the line:
   \begin{quote}
-    \cmd{usepackage[\mycolor{authordate-trad},%
+    \cmd{usepackage[authordate-trad,%
       backend=biber]\{biblatex-chicago\}}
   \end{quote}
 
@@ -242,19 +243,19 @@ this release.
   fuller explanation of all the options.
 \item \textsf{chicago-auth\-ordate.cbx},
   \textsf{chi\-cago-authordate.bbx},
-  \mycolor{\textsf{chi\-cago-authordate-trad.cbx}},
-  \mycolor{\textsf{chicago-auth\-ordate-trad.bbx}},
-  \textsf{chicago-notes.bbx}, \textsf{chi\-cago-notes.cbx},
-  \textsf{cms-am\-erican.lbx}, \textsf{cms-british.lbx},
-  \textsf{cms-finnish.lbx}, \textsf{cms-french.lbx},
-  \textsf{cms-ger\-man.lbx}, \textsf{cms-icelandic.lbx},
-  \textsf{cms-ngerman.lbx}, \textsf{cms-norsk.lbx},
-  \textsf{cms-norwe\-gian.lbx}, \textsf{cms-nynorsk.lbx}, and
-  \textsf{biblatex-chicago.sty}, all from \textsf{biblatex-chicago},
-  installed either in a system-wide \TeX\ directory, or in the working
-  directory where you keep your *.tex files.  (To use the 15th-edition
-  styles, you'll also require \textsf{chicago-notes15.bbx},
-  \textsf{chicago-notes15.cbx}, \textsf{chicago-authordate15.bbx}, and
+  \textsf{chi\-cago-authordate-trad.cbx},
+  \textsf{chicago-auth\-ordate-trad.bbx}, \textsf{chicago-notes.bbx},
+  \textsf{chi\-cago-notes.cbx}, \textsf{cms-am\-erican.lbx},
+  \textsf{cms-british.lbx}, \textsf{cms-finnish.lbx},
+  \textsf{cms-french.lbx}, \textsf{cms-ger\-man.lbx},
+  \textsf{cms-icelandic.lbx}, \textsf{cms-ngerman.lbx},
+  \textsf{cms-norsk.lbx}, \textsf{cms-norwe\-gian.lbx},
+  \textsf{cms-nynorsk.lbx}, and \textsf{biblatex-chicago.sty}, all
+  from \textsf{biblatex-chicago}, installed either in a system-wide
+  \TeX\ directory, or in the working directory where you keep your
+  *.tex files.  (To use the 15th-edition styles, you'll also require
+  \textsf{chicago-notes15.bbx}, \textsf{chicago-notes15.cbx},
+  \textsf{chicago-authordate15.bbx}, and
   \textsf{chicago-authordate15.cbx}.)  The .zip file from CTAN
   contains several subdirectories to help keep the growing number of
   files organized, so the files listed above can be found in the
@@ -285,13 +286,12 @@ this release.
   details on how to get started constructing your own .bib files for
   use with the two \textsf{biblatex-chicago} styles.
 \item The files \textsf{cms-notes-sample.pdf},
-  \textsf{cms-dates-sample.pdf}, and
-  \mycolor{\textsf{cms-trad-sam\-ple.pdf}}.  The first shows how my
-  system processes \textsf{notes-test.bib} and
+  \textsf{cms-dates-sample.pdf}, and \textsf{cms-trad-sam\-ple.pdf}.
+  The first shows how my system processes \textsf{notes-test.bib} and
   \textsf{cms-notes-sample.tex}, in both footnotes and bibliography,
   the second and third are the result of processing
   \textsf{dates-test.bib} with \textsf{cms-dates-sample.tex} or
-  \mycolor{\textsf{cms-trad-sample.tex}}.  All of these files are in
+  \textsf{cms-trad-sample.tex}.  All of these files are in
   \texttt{doc/examples/}.
 \item The file you are reading, \textsf{biblatex-chicago.pdf}, which
   aims to be as complete a description as possible of the rules for
@@ -354,21 +354,24 @@ separating rule only after a run-on note, I've adapted from the
 for the \texttt{shorthandibid} option from Dominik Waßenhoven's
 \textsf{biblatex-dw} package.  I've adapted Audrey Boruvka's
 \cmd{textcite} code from
-\href{http://tex/stackexchange.com/questions/67837/citations-as-nouns-in-biblatex-chicago}{Stackexchange}
-for the notes \&\ bibliography style.  I am very grateful to
-Antti-Juhani Kaijahano for the Finnish localization, to Baldur
-Kristinsson for providing the Icelandic localization, and to Håkon
-Malmedal for the Norwegian localizations.  Kazuo Teramoto and Gildas
-Hamel both sent patches to improve the package, and there may be other
-\LaTeX\ code I've appropriated and forgotten, in which case please
-remind me.  Finally, Charles Schaum and Joseph Reagle Jr.\ were both
-extremely generous with their help and advice during the development
-of this package, and have both continued indefatigably to test it and
-suggest needed improvements.  They were particularly instrumental in
-encouraging the greatest possible degree of compatibility with other
-\textsf{biblatex} styles.  Indeed, if the task of adapting .bib files
-for use with the Chicago style seems onerous now, you should have
-tried it before they got their hands on it.
+\href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67837/citations-as-nouns-in-biblatex-chicago}{Stackexchange}
+for the notes \&\ bibliography style, and her page-number-compression
+code for both styles from the
+\href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44492/biblatex-chicago-style-page-ranges}{same
+  site}.  I am very grateful to Antti-Juhani Kaijahano for the Finnish
+localization, to Baldur Kristinsson for providing the Icelandic
+localization, and to Håkon Malmedal for the Norwegian localizations.
+Kazuo Teramoto and Gildas Hamel both sent patches to improve the
+package, and there may be other \LaTeX\ code I've appropriated and
+forgotten, in which case please remind me.  Finally, Charles Schaum
+and Joseph Reagle Jr.\ were both extremely generous with their help
+and advice during the development of this package, and have both
+continued indefatigably to test it and suggest needed improvements.
+They were particularly instrumental in encouraging the greatest
+possible degree of compatibility with other \textsf{biblatex} styles.
+Indeed, if the task of adapting .bib files for use with the Chicago
+style seems onerous now, you should have tried it before they got
+their hands on it.
 
 \section{Detailed Introduction}
 \label{sec:Intro}
@@ -384,7 +387,7 @@ number of different kinds of source material, then your choice (or
 your publisher's choice) of the \emph{Manual} as a style guide seems
 set to be a happy one.
 
-%% \enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%% %\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace These very strengths, however, also make the style
 difficult to use.  Admittedly, the \emph{Manual} emphasizes
@@ -449,7 +452,7 @@ with this style, that you work on a copy of any .bib files that are
 important to you, until you have determined that this package does
 what you need/want it to do.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace When I first began working on this package, I made the
 decision to alter as little as possible the main files from Lehman's
@@ -556,10 +559,10 @@ and that page numbers are set off by a comma rather than a colon.
 Otherwise, the two sorts of reference have much in common.  (For
 \textsf{article}, see \emph{Manual} 14.175--198; batson,
 beattie:crime, friedman:learning, garaud:gatine, garrett, hlatky:hrt,
-kern, lewis, loften:hamlet, mcmillen:antebellum, warr:ellison,
-white:callimachus. For \textsf{entrysubtype} \texttt{magazine}, see
-14.181, 14.199--202; assocpress:gun, morgenson:market, reaves:rosen,
-rozner:liberation, stenger:privacy.)
+kern, lewis, loften:hamlet, mcmillen:antebellum, rozner:liberation,
+saberhagen:beluga, warr:ellison, white:callimachus. For
+\textsf{entrysubtype} \texttt{magazine}, see 14.181, 14.199--202;
+assocpress:gun, morgenson:market, reaves:rosen, sten\-ger:privacy.)
 
 \mylittlespace It gets worse.  The \emph{Manual} treats reviews (of
 books, plays, performances, etc.) as a sort of recognizable subset of
@@ -581,7 +584,7 @@ sort of review still exists in \textsf{article}, as it was initially
 designed for \textsf{biblatex 0.6}, but this new arrangement is
 somewhat simpler and therefore, I hope, better.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace In the case of a review with a specific as well as a
 generic title, the former goes in the \textsf{title} field, and the
@@ -641,7 +644,7 @@ bibliography entry is alphabetized correctly.  (See
 lakeforester:pushcarts and, for the sorting issue,
 \cmd{DeclareSortingScheme} in section~\ref{sec:formatopts} below.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Fourth, Bertold Schweitzer has pointed out, following
 the \emph{Manual} (14.192), that while an \textsf{issuetitle} often
@@ -723,7 +726,7 @@ entry with the same \textsf{entrysubtype}.  Such comments make
 particular use of the \textsf{eventdate} and of the \textsf{nameaddon}
 fields; please see the documentation of \textbf{review}, below.
 
-% \enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace If you're still with me, allow me to recommend that you
 browse through \textsf{notes-test.bib} to get a feel for just how many
@@ -817,7 +820,7 @@ of an archive, online or no, may best be presented in a \textbf{misc}
 entry with an \textsf{entrysubtype} (coolidge:speech,
 roosevelt:speech).
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Once you've accepted the analogy of composer to
 \textsf{author}, constructing an \textsf{audio} entry should be fairly
@@ -900,7 +903,7 @@ obsolete, and any such entries in your .bib file will trigger an
 error.  Please use the standard \textsf{biblatex} \textbf{letter} type
 instead.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{customb}} entry type is now
 obsolete, and any such entries in your .bib file will trigger an
@@ -935,7 +938,7 @@ key in a \cmd{nocite} command, or you can put that entry key in the
 \textsf{biblatex-chicago} will print the expanded abbreviation if and
 only if you cite the main entry.  (Cf.\ \textsf{userc}, below.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Under ordinary circumstances, \textsf{biblatex-chicago}
 will connect the two parts of the cross-reference with the word
@@ -1016,8 +1019,6 @@ mechanism for shortening citations of multiple pieces from the same
 \mycolor{\texttt{longcrossref}} in section~\ref{sec:chicpreset} for
 more details.
 
-% \enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
-
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{inreference}} entry type is
 aliased to \textsf{incollection} in the standard styles, but the
 \emph{Manual} has particular requirements, so if you are citing
@@ -1069,6 +1070,8 @@ work correctly you can only put one article name in it.  Despite this
 limitation, I hope that the current system might simplify things for
 users who cite numerous works of reference.
 
+\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+
 \mylittlespace If it seems appropriate to include such a work in the
 bibliography, be aware that the contents of the \textsf{lista} field
 will also be presented there, which may not be what you want.  A
@@ -1175,7 +1178,7 @@ see section~\ref{sec:chicpreset}, below.  To stop individual letters
 turning up in the bibliography, you can use the \texttt{skipbib}
 option in the \textsf{options} field.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{manual}} is the second of two
 traditional \textsc{Bib}\TeX\ entry types that the \emph{Manual}
@@ -1284,7 +1287,7 @@ date of a letter in a short note, I have provided the
 the citation command.  (The standard \textsf{biblatex} command
 \cmd{printdate} will work if you need to do the same for interviews.)
 
-%\vspace{\baselineskip}
+\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace As with \textsf{letter} entries, the \emph{Manual}
 (14.233) suggests that bibliography entries contain only the name of
@@ -1511,7 +1514,7 @@ the \emph{Manual} (14.7--8) prefers, if they're available, revision
 dates to access dates when documenting online material.  See
 \textsf{urldate} and \textsf{userd}, below.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace The \mymarginpar{\textbf{patent}} \emph{Manual} is very
 brief on this subject (14.230), but very clear about which information
@@ -1596,7 +1599,7 @@ entry, then the \textsf{type} field automatically defaults to
 report type in \textsf{note} and the \textsf{institution} in
 \textsf{publisher}.  (See herwign:office.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace The \mymarginpar{\textbf{review}} \textsf{review} entry
 type was added to \textsf{biblatex 0.7}, and it certainly eases the
@@ -1716,7 +1719,7 @@ depending on the context.  Examples might be \enquote{\texttt{preface
 that unless you use a \cmd{bibstring} command in the \textsf{type}
 field, the resultant entry will not be portable across languages.)
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace There are a few other rules for constructing your .bib
 entry.  The \textsf{author} field refers to the author of the
@@ -1753,7 +1756,7 @@ this purpose, and now you can use either of these, as I've added
 above under \textbf{review} for the full instructions on how to
 construct a .bib entry for such a reference.
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace The \mymarginpar{\textbf{unpublished}}
 \textsf{unpublished} entry type works largely as it does in standard
@@ -1919,7 +1922,7 @@ for this.)
 do, even though the \emph{Manual} doesn't actually mention it.  It may
 be useful for some purposes.  Cf.\ \textsf{commentator}.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace For \mymarginpar{\textbf{author}} the most part, I have
 implemented this field in a completely standard \textsc{Bib}\TeX\
@@ -2030,7 +2033,7 @@ employ, you include a cross-reference from one name to the other in
 the bibliography.  You can do this using a \textsf{customc} entry
 (ashe:creasey, morton:creasey, york:creasey).
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace In \mymarginpar{\textbf{authortype}}
 \textsf{biblatex-chicago}, this field serves a function very much in
@@ -2122,7 +2125,7 @@ of a book (ashbrook:brain).
 do, even though the \emph{Manual} doesn't actually mention it.  It may
 be useful for some purposes.  Cf.\ \textsf{annotator}.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \paragraph*{\colmarginpar{\textbf{crossref}}}
 \label{sec:crossref}
@@ -2150,16 +2153,16 @@ backend, \textsf{biblatex} defines a series of inheritance rules for
 the \textsf{crossref} field which make it much more convenient to use.
 Appendix B of \textsf{biblatex.pdf} explains the defaults, to which
 \textsf{biblatex-chicago} has added several that I should mention
-here: \textsf{incollection} entries can now inherit from
-\textsf{mvbook} just as they do from \textsf{mvcollection} entries;
-\textsf{letter} entries now inherit from \textsf{book},
-\textsf{collection}, \textsf{mvbook}, and \textsf{mvcollection}
-entries the same way an \textsf{inbook} or an \textsf{incollection}
-entry would; the \textsf{namea}, \textsf{nameb}, \textsf{sortname},
-\textsf{sorttitle}, and \textsf{sortyear} fields, all highly
-single-entry specific, are no longer inheritable; and \textsf{date}
-and \textsf{origdate} fields are not inheritable from any of the new
-\textbf{mv*} entry types.)
+here: \textsf{incollection} entries can now inherit from \textsf{book}
+and \textsf{mvbook} just as they do from \textsf{collection} and
+\textsf{mvcollection} entries; \textsf{letter} entries now inherit
+from \textsf{book}, \textsf{collection}, \textsf{mvbook}, and
+\textsf{mvcollection} entries the same way an \textsf{inbook} or an
+\textsf{incollection} entry would; the \textsf{namea}, \textsf{nameb},
+\textsf{sortname}, \textsf{sorttitle}, and \textsf{sortyear} fields,
+all highly single-entry specific, are no longer inheritable; and
+\textsf{date} and \textsf{origdate} fields are not inheritable from
+any of the new \textbf{mv*} entry types.)
 
 \mylittlespace Turning now to the provision of abbreviated references
 in \textsf{biblatex-chicago-notes}, the \emph{Manual} (14.113)
@@ -2265,8 +2268,6 @@ of individual entries.  See \textbf{mvbook} in
 section~\ref{sec:entrytypes} and \texttt{omitxrefdate} in
 section~\ref{sec:useropts}.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
-
 \mylittlespace Finally, a published collection of letters also
 requires different treatment (14.117).  If you cite more than one
 letter from the same collection, then the \emph{Manual} specifies that
@@ -2350,11 +2351,26 @@ The \colmarginpar{\texttt{booklongxref}} second option,
 Please note that you can set both of these options either in the
 preamble or in the \textsf{options} field of individual entries,
 allowing you to change the settings on an entry-by-entry basis.
-Please also note that the combination of \textsf{shorthand},
-\textsf{reprinttitle}, and/or \textsf{userf} fields with shortened
-cross references may produce unexpected results, at least as
-\textsf{biblatex-chicago-notes} currently stands.  I advise caution
-before doing so.
+
+\mylittlespace Please \colmarginpar{New!} further note that in
+previous releases of \textsf{biblatex-chicago} I recommended against
+using \textsf{shorthand}, \textsf{reprinttitle} and/or \textsf{userf}
+fields in combination with this abbreviated cross-referencing
+mechanism.  I have, however, received a request from Alexandre Roberts
+to allow the shorthand to appear in the place of the abbreviated
+cross-reference as an additional space-saving measure, and one from
+Kenneth Pearce to permit the combination of the other two fields with
+\textsf{crossref}, as well.  The \textsf{userf} and
+\textsf{reprinttitle} fields should now just work automatically in
+such circumstances, but \colmarginpar{\texttt{inheritshort\-hand}} the
+\textsf{shorthand} field in parent entries needs to be enabled by
+setting the \mycolor{\texttt{inheritshorthand}} package option to
+\texttt{true}.  There are, in addition, several other steps required
+to make this function smoothly --- please see the documentation of the
+\textbf{shorthand} field, below, for a full explanation.  (In case it
+isn't clear, the combination of \textsf{userf}, \textsf{shorthand},
+and \textsf{crossref} functionality in a single entry is now possible.
+If you come across any problems or inaccuracies, please report them.)
 
 \mybigspace This \colmarginpar{\textbf{date}} field may be used to
 specify an item's complete date of publication, in \textsc{iso}8601
@@ -2391,6 +2407,8 @@ making the conversion, though I'm retaining the right to revoke this
 if the code in question demonstrably interferes with the functioning
 of the notes \&\ bibliography style.)
 
+\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{day}} field, as of
 \textsf{biblatex} 0.9, is obsolete, and will be ignored if you use it
 in your .bib files.  Use \textsf{date} instead.
@@ -2469,7 +2487,7 @@ performers.  To specify the role, use the fields \textsf{editoratype},
 \textsf{editorbtype}, and \textsf{editorctype}, which see.  (Cf.\
 bernstein:shostakovich, handel:messiah.)
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace Normally, \mymarginpar{\textbf{editortype}} with the
 exception of the \textsf{article} and \textsf{review} types,
@@ -2655,7 +2673,7 @@ from the \textsf{author}.  The \emph{Manual} has nothing to say on the
 subject, but \textsf{biblatex-chicago-notes} prints it (them), in
 parentheses, just after the author(s).
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace Standard \mymarginpar{\textbf{howpublished}}
 \textsf{biblatex} field, mainly applicable in the \textsf{booklet}
@@ -2711,7 +2729,7 @@ proper place to identify the type of issue, e.g.,\ \texttt{special
   issue}, with the initial letter lower-cased to enable automatic
 contextual capitalization.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace The \mymarginpar{\textbf{journalsubtitle}} subtitle for a
 \textsf{journaltitle} --- see next entry.
@@ -2814,7 +2832,7 @@ If the place of publication is unknown, you can use
 \cmd{autocap\{n\}.p.}\ instead (14.138).  For all cities, you should
 use the common English version of the name, if such exists (14.137).
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Three more details need explanation here.  In
 \textsf{article}, \textsf{periodical}, and \textsf{review} entries,
@@ -2849,7 +2867,7 @@ pelikan:chris\-tian, and plato:republic:gr.)  When using a
 \textbf{mv*} entry types always becomes a \textsf{maintitle} in the
 child entry.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace An \mymarginpar{\textbf{maintitleaddon}} annex to the
 \textsf{maintitle}, for which see previous entry.  Such an annex would
@@ -2968,6 +2986,8 @@ the \textsf{editor} field \textsf{biblatex} will automatically attend
 to alphabetization and name-replacement in the bibliography, and will
 also provide a name for short notes.)
 
+\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+
 \mylittlespace It might conceivably be necessary at some point to
 identify the compiler(s) of a \textsf{title} separate from the
 compiler(s) of a \textsf{booktitle} or \textsf{maintitle}, but for the
@@ -3101,7 +3121,7 @@ numbers, some improvisation may be needed if you wish to include
 \textsf{titleaddon}, but in other entry types you may need to use the
 \textsf{location} field.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace In \mymarginpar{\textbf{origlanguage}} keeping with the
 \emph{Manual}'s specifications, I have fairly thoroughly redefined
@@ -3178,7 +3198,7 @@ the \textsf{origdate}, and all will be presented in long notes and
 bibliography.  (Cf.\ \textsf{origdate}, \textsf{origlocation}, and
 \textsf{pubstate}; schweitzer:bach.)
 
-\mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{pages}} is the standard
+\mybigspace This \colmarginpar{\textbf{pages}} is the standard
 \textsf{biblatex} field for providing page references.  In many
 \textsf{article} and \textsf{review} entries you'll find this contains
 something other than a page number, e.g. a section name or edition
@@ -3195,6 +3215,22 @@ given \textsf{pages} field contains; and \textsf{usera} discusses a
 different way to present the section information pertaining to a
 newspaper article.
 
+\mylittlespace David Gohlke has recently brought to my attention a
+discussion that took place a couple of years ago on
+\href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44492/biblatex-chicago-style-page-ranges}{Stackexchange}
+regarding the automatic compression of page ranges, e.g., 101-{-}109
+in the .bib file or in the \textsf{postnote} field would become 101--9
+in the document.  \textsf{Biblatex} has long had the facilities for
+providing this, and though the \emph{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 \textsf{postnote} fields, I have made the activation of
+this code a package option, so setting
+\mycolor{\texttt{compresspages=true}} when loading
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago} should automatically give you the
+Chicago-recommended page ranges.
+
 \mybigspace This, \mymarginpar{\textbf{pagination}} a standard
 \textsf{biblatex} field, allows you automatically to prefix the
 appropriate identifying string to information you provide in the
@@ -3269,7 +3305,7 @@ will take care of everything for you.  Both of these methods will now
 work just fine, but please choose only one per entry, otherwise the
 string will be printed twice.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace There are a couple of exceptions to this basic
 functionality.  In \textsf{video} entries, no bibstring will be
@@ -3347,7 +3383,7 @@ periodicals, see 14.195; garaud:gatine, sewall:letter.)  Cf.\
 \textsf{number} for more information on the \emph{Manual}'s
 preferences regarding the formatting of numerals.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \paragraph*{\mymarginpar{\textbf{shortauthor}}}
 \label{sec:shortauthor}
@@ -3392,7 +3428,7 @@ most situations, but if you have set \texttt{useauthor=false} (and not
 only \textsf{shorteditor} will be recognized.  Cf.\
 \textsf{editortype}, above.
 
-\mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{shorthand}} is
+\mybigspace This \colmarginpar{\textbf{shorthand}} is
 \textsf{biblatex}'s mechanism for using abbreviations in place of the
 usual short note form, and in previous releases I left it effectively
 unmodified in \textsf{biblatex-chicago-notes}, apart from a few
@@ -3404,17 +3440,18 @@ entry which contains a \textsf{shorthand} field will produce a normal
 first note, either long or short according to your package options,
 informing the reader that the work will hereafter be cited by this
 abbreviation.  As in \textsf{biblatex}, the \cmd{printshorthands}
-command will produce a formatted list of abbreviations for reference
-purposes, a list which the \emph{Manual} suggests should be placed
-either in the front matter (when using footnotes) or before the
-endnotes, in case these are used.
+command, now for \textsf{Biber} users at least an alias for
+\cmd{printbib\-list\{shorthand\}}, will produce a formatted list of
+abbreviations for reference purposes, a list which the \emph{Manual}
+suggests should be placed either in the front matter (when using
+footnotes) or before the endnotes, in case these are used.
 
 \mylittlespace I have provided three options to alter these defaults.
 First, there is a new citation command, \cmd{shorthandcite}, which
 will print the \textsf{shorthand} even at the first citation.  I have
 only provided the most general form of this command, so you'll need to
 put it inside parentheses or in a \cmd{footnote} command yourself.
-Next, I have included two \texttt{bibenvironments} for use with the
+Second, I have included two \texttt{bibenvironments} for use with the
 \texttt{env} option to the \cmd{printshorthands} command:
 \texttt{losnotes} is designed to allow a list of shorthands to appear
 inside footnotes, while \texttt{losendnotes} does the same for
@@ -3423,17 +3460,44 @@ latter case to clear up some spurious punctuation and white space that
 I see on my system when using endnotes.  (You'll probably also want to
 use the option \texttt{heading=none} in order to get rid of the
 [oversized] default, providing your own within the \cmd{footnote}
-command.)  Finally, I have provided a package option,
+command.)  Third, I have provided a package option,
 \texttt{shorthandfull}, which prints entries in the list of shorthands
 which contain full bibliographical information, effectively allowing
 you to eschew the bibliography in favor of a fortified shorthand list.
 (See 13.65, 14.54--55, and also \textsf{biblatex.pdf} for more
 information.)
 
-\mylittlespace As I mentioned above under \textbf{crossref}, extra
-care is needed when using shorthands with cross-references, and I
-would avoid them in all parent entries, at least in the current state
-of \textsf{biblatex-chicago-notes}.
+\mylittlespace Alexandre \colmarginpar{New!} Roberts has suggested a
+further refinement to \textsf{shorthand} behavior, which allows for it
+to appear in the place of the usual abbreviated citation of parent
+entries cross-referenced by several different child entries.  In such
+a case, instead of the usual \enquote{\ldots\,in Author, \emph{Title},
+  24--38,} you would see instead \enquote{\ldots\,in \emph{ShrtHd},
+  24--38.}  There are several steps required for enabling this
+behavior.  First, you need to set the new package option
+\mycolor{\texttt{inheritshorthand}} to \texttt{true}, which allows
+child entries to inherit the necessary fields from their
+cross-referenced parents.  Second, you'll probably want to use the
+\textsf{shorthandintro} field somehow to clarify that the
+\textsf{shorthand} applies to the \emph{parent} rather than to the
+\emph{child}, as otherwise the reference will be ambiguous.  Third,
+you'll need to put \texttt{skipbiblist}, formerly \texttt{skiplos}, in
+the \textsf{options} field of the child entries so that the
+\textsf{shorthand} itself appears in the list of shorthands
+\emph{only} next to the parent entry, and not also next to all of its
+children.
+
+\mylittlespace As I mentioned above under \textbf{crossref}, I
+formerly recommended against using shorthands with cross-references,
+but this extension of their use makes sense as an extra space-saving
+measure.  I'm not certain that I've identified all the possible
+drawbacks to enabling the \mycolor{\texttt{inheritshorthand}} option,
+so care is still needed, at least in the current state of
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago-notes}.  Please report any problems you might
+have with this functionality to the email address at the head of this
+documentation.
+
+\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace When \mymarginpar{\textbf{shorthandintro}} you include a
 \textsf{shorthand} in an entry, it will ordinarily appear the first
@@ -3473,7 +3537,7 @@ lowercase letter the style will do the right thing (barcott:review,
 bundy:macneil, Clemens:letter, kozinn:review, ratliff:review,
 unsigned:ranke).
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace A \mymarginpar{\textbf{sortkey}} standard
 \textsf{biblatex} field, designed to allow you to specify how you want
@@ -3619,7 +3683,7 @@ example where the \textsf{titleaddon} field, holding the name of a
 regular column in a newspaper, is capitalized, a situation that is
 handled as you would expect.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace As \mymarginpar{\textbf{translator}} far as possible, I
 have implemented this field as \textsf{biblatex}'s standard styles do,
@@ -3698,7 +3762,7 @@ do the right thing in citations.  Cf.\ \textsf{artwork},
 above, for all the details.  (See auden:reading, bedford:photo,
 cleese:holygrail, leo:madonna, nytrumpet:art.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace A standard \mymarginpar{\textbf{url}} \textsf{biblatex}
 field, it holds the url of an online publication, though you can
@@ -3798,7 +3862,7 @@ the latter, you may need to provide a \textsf{shorttitle} so that the
 short note form is also parseable.  Cf.\ \textbf{language}, above.
 (See 14.108--110, 14.194; kern, weresz.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{userf}} is the last of the
 supplemental fields which \textsf{biblatex} provides, and is used by
@@ -3877,7 +3941,7 @@ customizable, using the new command \mycolor{\cmd{postvolpunct}}
 \textsf{part}, and the command documentation in
 section~\ref{sec:formatcommands}.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace Standard \colmarginpar{\textbf{volumes}} \textsf{biblatex}
 field.  It holds the total number of volumes of a multi-volume work,
@@ -4019,7 +4083,7 @@ and very nearly all need for the \cmd{autocap} command ---
 centinel:letters and powell:email being the only exceptions.  Please
 see \textbf{\textbackslash autocap} above for full details.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace I should also mention here that \textsf{biblatex 0.7}
 introduced a new functionality which sometimes allows you simply to
@@ -4062,8 +4126,6 @@ instead of \cmd{enquote} or the usual \LaTeX\ mechanisms inside their
 .bib files.  For further details, please see the \cmd{mkbibquote}
 entry below.
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
-
 \mylittlespace I have retained the code for the \cmd{custpunct}
 commands in \textsf{chicago-notes.cbx}, in case a particularly gnarly
 entry might still require them, but I have already started to re-use
@@ -4092,6 +4154,8 @@ only using \cmd{headlesscites}.  (There is also, by the way, a
 \cmd{headlessparencite(s)} command if you want to retain the long
 citations inside the parentheses.)
 
+\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{\textbackslash isdot}} is a
 standard \textsf{biblatex} macro, which in previous releases of
 \textsf{biblatex-chicago} could function as a convenient placeholder
@@ -4188,6 +4252,8 @@ please note that the command only applies in this limited context, not
 more generally to the punctuation that appears between, e.g., a
 \textsf{volume} and a \textsf{part} field.
 
+\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{\textbackslash reprint}} and the
 following 7 macros all help \textsf{biblatex-chicago-notes} cope with
 the fact that many bibstrings in the Chicago system differ between
@@ -4224,8 +4290,6 @@ originally I intended them for use when a particular name applied only
 to a specific \textsf{title}, rather than to a \textsf{maintitle} or
 \textsf{booktitle} (cf.\ \textbf{namea} and \textbf{nameb}, above).
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
-
 \mylittlespace In the present instance, you can use \cmd{partcomp} to
 identify a compiler when \textsf{namec} won't do, e.g., in a
 \textsf{note} field or the like.  In such a case,
@@ -4240,6 +4304,8 @@ currently you'll need to add either \texttt{de} or \texttt{d'} after
 this command in your .bib files to make the references come out right.
 I'm working on this.)  See chaucer:liferecords.
 
+\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+
 \mybigspace As \mymarginpar{\textbf{\textbackslash
     partedit-\\andcomp}} before, but for use when an editor is also a
 compiler.
@@ -4347,7 +4413,7 @@ included this multicite command to enable you to present such a list,
 if the need arises.  Remember that you'll have to put it inside a
 \cmd{footnote} command manually.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace Another \mymarginpar{\textbf{\textbackslash footfullcite}}
 standard \textsf{biblatex} command, modified to work properly with
@@ -4615,7 +4681,7 @@ variant of the default \texttt{nty}.  (You can find its definition in
 \textsf{chicago-notes.cbx}.)  Users of all other backends will still
 be using \texttt{nty}.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace The advantages of this scheme are, specifically, that
 any entry headed by one of the supplemental name fields
@@ -4663,7 +4729,7 @@ preamble, for the whole document, or on a per-entry basis in the
 field will always be printed, but the \texttt{only} switch will still
 eliminate any \textsf{url}.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace This \mymarginpar{\texttt{eprint=true}} option controls
 whether any \textsf{eprint} fields present in the .bib file will be
@@ -4865,7 +4931,7 @@ entry, but you can't stop it turning up in the sorting algorithms.
 \label{sec:useropts}
 
 These are parts of the specification that not everyone will wish to
-enable.  All except the third can be used even if you load the
+enable.  All except the fourth can be used even if you load the
 package in the old way via a call to \textsf{biblatex}, but most users
 can just place the appropriate string(s) in the options to the
 \cmd{usepackage\{biblatex-chicago\}} call in your preamble.
@@ -4881,6 +4947,14 @@ functionality is currently in a beta state, so before you use it
 please have a look at the documentation for the \textsf{annotation}
 field, on page~\pageref{sec:annote} above.
 
+\mylittlespace When \colmarginpar{\texttt{compresspages}} set to
+\texttt{true}, any page ranges in your .bib file or in the
+\textsf{postnote} field of your citation commands will be compressed
+in accordance with the \emph{Manual's} specifications (9.60).
+Something like 321-{-}328 in your .bib file would become 321--28 in
+your document.  See the \textsf{pages} field in
+section~\ref{sec:entryfields}, above.
+
 \mylittlespace The \colmarginpar{\texttt{delayvolume}} presentation of
 \textsf{volume} information in the notes \&\ bibliography style is
 complicated (\emph{Manual}, 14.121--27).  Depending on entry type and
@@ -4916,6 +4990,16 @@ revert to the \LaTeX\ default, but of course you also lose a fair
 amount of other formatting, as well.  See section~\ref{sec:loading},
 below.
 
+\mylittlespace Setting \colmarginpar{\texttt{inheritshort\-hand}} this
+option to \texttt{true} allows child entries to inherit the
+\textsf{shorthand} and \textsf{shorthandintro} fields from
+cross-referenced parent entries.  This in turn allows abbreviated
+references to the parent entry to use the \textsf{shorthand} instead
+of the usual and merely short citation, thus allowing for extra space
+savings.  There are several other steps required to make this all
+function smoothly, so please see the documentation of the
+\textbf{shorthand} field in section~\ref{sec:entryfields}, above.
+
 \mylittlespace The \mymarginpar{\texttt{juniorcomma}} \emph{Manual}
 (6.47) states that \enquote{commas are not required around \emph{Jr.}\
   and \emph{Sr.},} so by default \textsf{biblatex-chicago} has
@@ -4969,7 +5053,27 @@ or in the \textsf{options} field of individual entries.  Cf.\
 harley:ancient:cart, harley:cartography, and harley:hoc; and
 \textsf{crossref} in section~\ref{sec:entryfields}, above.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+\mylittlespace Several
+\colmarginpar{\texttt{postnotepunct}\\(experimental)} users, most
+recently David Gohlke, have requested a way to alter the punctuation
+that appears just before the \textsf{postnote} argument of citation
+commands, usually, but perhaps not always, to allow citations to fit
+better into the flow of text.  This punctuation is a complex issue in
+the \emph{Manual}, and I've attempted to make
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago} follow the specifications closely.  Still,
+as a first stab at enabling the greater flexibility in punctuation
+that some have requested, I have introduced the
+\mycolor{\texttt{postnotepunct}} package option.  Set to
+\texttt{true}, it allows you to start the \textsf{postnote} field with
+a punctuation mark (.\,,\,;\,:) and have it appear as the
+\cmd{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 \mycolor{experimental}.  Note
+also that the option only affects the \textsf{postnote} field of
+citation commands, not the \textsf{pages} field in your .bib file.
+
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace This \mymarginpar{\texttt{short}} option means that
 your text will only use the short note form, even in the first
@@ -5072,7 +5176,7 @@ preamble, a \cmd{DeclareLanguageMapping} command adapted for your
 setup, on which see section~\ref{sec:international} below and also
 §§~4.9.1 and 4.11.8 in Lehman's \textsf{biblatex.pdf}.
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace What you \emph{will not} lose is the ability to call
 the package options \texttt{annotation, strict, short,} and
@@ -5179,12 +5283,12 @@ latest edition now recommends \enquote{a uniform treatment for the
 (15.2), many of these references will in fact be to the chapter on the
 notes \&\ bibliography style (chap.\ 14), which chapter is, by design,
 considerably more detailed than that devoted to the author-date style.
-The second, \mycolor{\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate-trad}},
-implements that same specification but with a markedly different style
-of title presentation, including sentence-style capitalization and an
-absence of quotation marks around the (plain-text) titles of
-\textsf{article} or \textsf{incollection} entries, \emph{inter alia}.
-The \textsf{trad} style is so named because older versions of the
+The second, \textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate-trad}, implements that
+same specification but with a markedly different style of title
+presentation, including sentence-style capitalization and an absence
+of quotation marks around the (plain-text) titles of \textsf{article}
+or \textsf{incollection} entries, \emph{inter alia}.  The
+\textsf{trad} style is so named because older versions of the
 \emph{Manual}, up to and including the 15th edition, recommended this
 plainer style for author-date titles, and the 16th edition itself
 suggests the possibility, when needed, of retaining such title
@@ -5210,35 +5314,34 @@ examples from the \emph{Manual} which, when processed using
 as you see in the \emph{Manual} itself, or at least compliant output,
 where the specifications are vague or open to interpretation, a state
 of affairs which does sometimes occur.  If you are using
-\mycolor{\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate-trad}} the same basically
-holds, but you'd have to keep one eye on the 15th edition of the
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate-trad} the same basically holds,
+but you'd have to keep one eye on the 15th edition of the
 \emph{Manual} (chap.\ 17) for the titles.  I have provided
-\textsf{cms-dates-sample.pdf} and
-\mycolor{\textsf{cms-trad-sample.pdf}}, which show how my system
-processes \textsf{dates-test.bib}, and I have also included the
-reference keys from the latter file below in parentheses.
+\textsf{cms-dates-sample.pdf} and \textsf{cms-trad-sample.pdf}, which
+show how my system processes \textsf{dates-test.bib}, and I have also
+included the reference keys from the latter file below in parentheses.
 
 \subsection{Entry Types}
 \label{sec:types:authdate}
 
 The complete list of entry types currently available in
-\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate} and
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}, minus the odd \textsf{biblatex}
-alias, is as follows: \textbf{article}, \textbf{artwork},
-\textbf{audio}, \mycolor{\textbf{book}},
-\mycolor{\textbf{bookinbook}}, \textbf{booklet},
-\mycolor{\textbf{collection}}, \textbf{customc}, \textbf{image},
-\textbf{inbook}, \textbf{incollection}, \textbf{inproceedings},
-\textbf{inreference}, \textbf{letter}, \textbf{manual}, \textbf{misc},
-\textbf{music}, \mycolor{\textbf{mvbook}},
-\mycolor{\textbf{mvcollection}}, \mycolor{\textbf{mvproceedings}},
-\mycolor{\textbf{mvreference}}, \textbf{online} (with its alias
-\textbf{www}), \textbf{patent}, \textbf{periodical},
-\mycolor{\textbf{proceedings}}, \textbf{reference}, \textbf{report}
-(with its alias \textbf{techreport}), \textbf{review},
-\textbf{suppbook}, \textbf{suppcollection}, \textbf{suppperiodical},
-\textbf{thesis} (with its aliases \textbf{mastersthesis} and
-\textbf{phdthesis}), \textbf{unpublished}, and \textbf{video}.
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate} and \textsf{authordate-trad},
+minus the odd \textsf{biblatex} alias, is as follows:
+\textbf{article}, \textbf{artwork}, \textbf{audio},
+\mycolor{\textbf{book}}, \mycolor{\textbf{bookinbook}},
+\textbf{booklet}, \mycolor{\textbf{collection}}, \textbf{customc},
+\textbf{image}, \textbf{inbook}, \textbf{incollection},
+\textbf{inproceedings}, \textbf{inreference}, \textbf{letter},
+\textbf{manual}, \textbf{misc}, \textbf{music},
+\mycolor{\textbf{mvbook}}, \mycolor{\textbf{mvcollection}},
+\mycolor{\textbf{mvproceedings}}, \mycolor{\textbf{mvreference}},
+\textbf{online} (with its alias \textbf{www}), \textbf{patent},
+\textbf{periodical}, \mycolor{\textbf{proceedings}},
+\textbf{reference}, \textbf{report} (with its alias
+\textbf{techreport}), \textbf{review}, \textbf{suppbook},
+\textbf{suppcollection}, \textbf{suppperiodical}, \textbf{thesis}
+(with its aliases \textbf{mastersthesis} and \textbf{phdthesis}),
+\textbf{unpublished}, and \textbf{video}.
 
 \mylittlespace What follows is an attempt to specify all the
 differences between these types and the standard provided by
@@ -5339,7 +5442,7 @@ is a generic title like \enquote{review of \ldots,} then you want to
 switch to the \textsf{review} type, where you can simply use the
 \textsf{title} field for it.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace No less than eight more things need explication under
 this heading.  First, since the \emph{Manual} specifies that what goes
@@ -5403,7 +5506,7 @@ with the \textsf{title} otherwise.  The usual string concatenation
 rules still apply --- cf.\ \textsf{editor} and \textsf{editortype} in
 section~\ref{sec:fields:authdate}, below.
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Fifth, in certain fields, just beginning your data with
 a lowercase letter activates the mechanism for capitalizing that
@@ -5460,7 +5563,7 @@ entry with the same \textsf{entrysubtype}.  Such comments make
 particular use of the \textsf{eventdate} and of the \textsf{nameaddon}
 fields; please see the documentation of \textbf{review}, below.
 
-% \enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace If you're still with me, allow me to recommend that you
 browse through \textsf{dates-test.bib} to get a feel for just how many
@@ -5647,7 +5750,7 @@ obsolete, and any such entries in your .bib file will trigger an
 error.  Please use the standard \textsf{biblatex} \textbf{letter} type
 instead.
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{customb}} entry type is now
 obsolete, and any such entries in your .bib file will trigger an
@@ -5704,13 +5807,18 @@ wish to include a comment inside the parentheses of a citation, as
 specified by the \emph{Manual} (15.23).  If you have a
 \textsf{postnote}, then you can manually provide the punctuation and
 comment there, e.g., \cmd{autocite[4; the unrevised
-  trans.]\{stendhal:parma\}}.  Without a \textsf{postnote}, you'll
-need a separate \textsf{misc} or \textsf{customc} entry containing
-just the text of the comment in the \textsf{title} field,
+  trans.]\{stendhal:parma\}}.  Without a \textsf{postnote}, you now
+have two choices.  You can enable the new
+\mycolor{\texttt{postnotepunct}} option, which allows you simply to
+type \cmd{autocite[; the unrevised trans.]\\\{stendhal:parma\}}, or you
+can continue to use a separate \textsf{misc} or \textsf{customc} entry
+containing just the text of the comment in the \textsf{title} field,
 \textsf{entrysubtype} \texttt{classical}, and \textsf{options}
 \texttt{skipbib}.  An \cmd{autocites} command calling both the main
-text and the comment will do the trick, e.g.,
-\cmd{autocites\{chicago:manual\}\{chicago:comment\}}.
+text and the comment then does the trick, e.g.,
+\cmd{autocites\{chicago:manual\}\{chicago:\\comment\}}.  Cf.\
+\mycolor{\texttt{postnotepunct}} in section~\ref{sec:authuseropts},
+below.
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{image}} entry type, left
 undefined in the standard styles, was in previous releases of
@@ -5722,8 +5830,6 @@ media.  This means that this entry type is now a clone of the
 for users migrating from the old to the new specification.  (See 3.22,
 8.193; bedford:photo.)
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
-
 \mybigspace These
 \mymarginpar{\mycolor{\textbf{inbook}}\\\textbf{incollection}} two
 standard \textsf{biblatex} types have very nearly identical formatting
@@ -5768,6 +5874,8 @@ inclusive page numbers, not both.  In-text citations, of course,
 require any \textsf{postnote} field to specify if it is a whole
 chapter to which you are referring.
 
+\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{inproceedings}} entry type works
 pretty much as in standard \textsf{biblatex}.  Indeed, the main
 differences between it and \textsf{incollection} are the lack of an
@@ -5889,7 +5997,7 @@ the \textsf{xref} mechanism to refer to the whole published collection
 of references, and the \textsf{letter} entry never sees that
 \textsf{date} at all.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace If this all seems clear as mud, I'm not surprised, but
 let me suggest that you experiment with the different date settings to
@@ -6149,6 +6257,8 @@ the correct functioning of the abbreviated references that
 see the documentation of the \textbf{crossref} field in
 section~\ref{sec:fields:authdate}, below.)
 
+\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+
 \mylittlespace On the same subject, when multi-volume works are
 presented in the reference apparatus, the \emph{Manual} (14.121--27,
 15.39) requires that any dates presented should be appropriate to the
@@ -6211,7 +6321,7 @@ the \emph{Manual} (14.7--8) prefers, if they're available, revision
 dates to access dates when documenting online material.  See
 \textsf{urldate} and \textsf{userd}, below.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace The \mymarginpar{\textbf{patent}} \emph{Manual} is very
 brief on the subject of patents (15.50), but very clear about which
@@ -6298,24 +6408,23 @@ type wasn't, strictly speaking, necessary for the 15th edition
 author-date specification.  With the major changes to the presentation
 of the title fields in the 16th edition, however, it has now become
 necessary for \textsf{authordate} users, if not
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}} users, to familiarize themselves
-with it as a means of coping with the \emph{Manual}'s complicated
-requirements for citing periodicals of all sorts.  As its name
-suggests, this entry type was designed for reviews published in
-periodicals, and if you've already read the \textsf{article}
-instructions above --- if you haven't, I recommend doing so now ---
-you'll know that \textsf{review} serves as well for citing other sorts
-of material with generic titles, like letters to the editor,
-obituaries, interviews, online comments and the like.  The primary
-rule is that any piece that has only a generic title, like
-\enquote{review of \ldots,} \enquote{interview with \ldots,} or
-\enquote{obituary of \ldots,} calls for the \textsf{review} type.  Any
-piece that also has a specific title, e.g., \enquote{\enquote{Lost in
-    \textsc{Bib}\TeX,} an interview with \ldots,} requires an
-\textsf{article} entry.  (This assumes the text is found in a
-periodical of some sort.  Were it found in a book, then the
-\textsf{incollection} type would serve your needs, and you could use
-\textsf{title} and \textsf{titleaddon} there.  While we're on the
+\textsf{authordate-trad} users, to familiarize themselves with it as a
+means of coping with the \emph{Manual}'s complicated requirements for
+citing periodicals of all sorts.  As its name suggests, this entry
+type was designed for reviews published in periodicals, and if you've
+already read the \textsf{article} instructions above --- if you
+haven't, I recommend doing so now --- you'll know that \textsf{review}
+serves as well for citing other sorts of material with generic titles,
+like letters to the editor, obituaries, interviews, online comments
+and the like.  The primary rule is that any piece that has only a
+generic title, like \enquote{review of \ldots,} \enquote{interview
+  with \ldots,} or \enquote{obituary of \ldots,} calls for the
+\textsf{review} type.  Any piece that also has a specific title, e.g.,
+\enquote{\enquote{Lost in \textsc{Bib}\TeX,} an interview with
+  \ldots,} requires an \textsf{article} entry.  (This assumes the text
+is found in a periodical of some sort.  Were it found in a book, then
+the \textsf{incollection} type would serve your needs, and you could
+use \textsf{title} and \textsf{titleaddon} there.  While we're on the
 topic of exceptions, the \emph{Manual} includes an example --- 14.221
 --- where the \enquote{Interview} part of the title is considered a
 subtitle rather than a titleaddon, said part therefore being included
@@ -6411,7 +6520,7 @@ one is present, and with the \textsf{title} otherwise.  The usual
 string concatenation rules still apply --- cf.\ \textsf{editor} and
 \textsf{editortype} in section~\ref{sec:fields:authdate}, below.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{suppbook}} is the entry type to
 use if the main focus of a reference is supplemental material in a
@@ -6438,7 +6547,7 @@ depending on the context.  Examples might be \enquote{\texttt{preface
 that unless you use a \cmd{bibstring} command in the \textsf{type}
 field, the resultant entry will not be portable across languages.)
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace The other rules for constructing your .bib entry remain
 the same.  The \textsf{author} field refers to the author of the
@@ -6603,7 +6712,7 @@ undefined, and \textsf{biblatex-chicago} will do the rest. Cf.\
 \textsf{foreword} and \textsf{introduction}. (See \emph{Manual} 14.91,
 14.116; polakow:afterw.)
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace At \mymarginpar{\textbf{annotation}} the request of Emil
 Salim, \textsf{biblatex-chicago} has, as of version 0.9, added a
@@ -6703,7 +6812,7 @@ abbreviating a \textsf{journaltitle}, a (formatted)
 reasonable length, though not at the expense of making it hard to find
 the relevant entries in the reference list.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Recommendations concerning anonymous authors in other
 kinds of references have changed somewhat in the 16th edition of the
@@ -6791,7 +6900,7 @@ the brackets.  Assuming the strings are correct,
 in citations.  (See the \textsf{author} docs just above.  Also
 \emph{Manual} 15.33; cook:sotweed, horsley:prosodies.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace For \mymarginpar{\textbf{bookauthor}} the most part, as in
 \textsf{biblatex}, a \textsf{bookauthor} is the author of a
@@ -6845,9 +6954,9 @@ invariably be providing information for the traditional
 discuss below (\textbf{crossref}).  Such provision is unnecessary when
 using \textsf{Biber}.  The \textsf{booktitle} no longer takes
 sentence-style capitalization in \textsf{authordate}, though it does
-in \mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}.
+in \textsf{authordate-trad}.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace An \mymarginpar{\textbf{booktitleaddon}} annex to the
 \textsf{booktitle}.  It will be printed in the main text font, without
@@ -6875,16 +6984,17 @@ inherit no data at all from their parents.  For the \textsf{crossref}
 field, when \textsf{Biber} is the backend, \textsf{biblatex} defines a
 series of inheritance rules which make it much more convenient to use.
 Appendix B of \textsf{biblatex.pdf} explains the defaults, to which
-\textsf{biblatex-chicago} has added several that I should mention here:
-\textsf{incollection} entries can now inherit from \textsf{mvbook}
-just as they do from \textsf{mvcollection} entries; \textsf{letter}
-entries now inherit from \textsf{book}, \textsf{collection},
-\textsf{mvbook}, and \textsf{mvcollection} entries the same way an
-\textsf{inbook} or an \textsf{incollection} entry would; the
-\textsf{namea}, \textsf{nameb}, \textsf{sortname}, \textsf{sorttitle},
-and \textsf{sortyear} fields, all highly single-entry specific, are no
-longer inheritable; and \textsf{date} and \textsf{origdate} fields are
-not inheritable from any of the new \textbf{mv*} entry types.
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago} has added several that I should mention
+here: \textsf{incollection} entries can now inherit from \textsf{book}
+and \textsf{mvbook} just as they do from \textsf{mvcollection}
+entries; \textsf{letter} entries now inherit from \textsf{book},
+\textsf{collection}, \textsf{mvbook}, and \textsf{mvcollection}
+entries the same way an \textsf{inbook} or an \textsf{incollection}
+entry would; the \textsf{namea}, \textsf{nameb}, \textsf{sortname},
+\textsf{sorttitle}, and \textsf{sortyear} fields, all highly
+single-entry specific, are no longer inheritable; and \textsf{date}
+and \textsf{origdate} fields are not inheritable from any of the new
+\textbf{mv*} entry types.
 
 \mylittlespace Aside from these inheritance questions, the other main
 function of the \textsf{crossref} and \textsf{xref} fields in
@@ -6938,7 +7048,7 @@ these four entry types than for the other 4 (see below).  In
 looking at bernhard:boris, bernhard:ritter, bernhard:themacher,
 harley:ancient:cart, harley:cartography, and harley:hoc.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace A published collection of letters requires a somewhat
 different treatment (15.40).  In the author-date style, the
@@ -7000,11 +7110,21 @@ The \colmarginpar{\texttt{booklongxref}} second option,
 Please note that you can set both of these options either in the
 preamble or in the \textsf{options} field of individual entries,
 allowing you to change the settings on an entry-by-entry basis.
-Please also note that the combination of \textsf{shorthand},
-\textsf{reprinttitle}, and/or \textsf{userf} fields with shortened
-cross references may produce unexpected results, at least as
-\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate} currently stands.  I advise
-caution before doing so.
+
+\mylittlespace Please \colmarginpar{New!} further note that in
+previous releases of \textsf{biblatex-chicago} I recommended against
+using \textsf{shorthand}, \textsf{reprinttitle} and/or \textsf{userf}
+fields in combination with this abbreviated cross-referencing
+mechanism.  I have, however, received a request from Alexandre Roberts
+to allow the shorthand to appear in the place of the abbreviated
+cross-reference as an additional space-saving measure, and one from
+Kenneth Pearce to permit the combination of the other two fields with
+\textsf{crossref}, as well.  All three of these fields, in any
+combination, should now just work in such circumstances in
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate}, though if you are using a list
+of shorthands then you may need to include \texttt{skipbiblist} in the
+\textsf{options} field of some entries to avoid duplicates.  If you
+come across any problems or inaccuracies, please report them.
 
 \mybigspace Predictably, \colmarginpar{\textbf{date}} this is one of
 the key fields for the author-date styles, and one which, as a general
@@ -7318,7 +7438,7 @@ be ignored, producing \enquote{\texttt{n.d.}}\ in the output --- you
 need \texttt{1968/1975} instead.  If you want a more compressed year
 range, then you'll want to use the \textsf{year} field.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Fourth, in the \textsf{misc} entry type the
 \textsf{date} field can help to distinguish between two classes of
@@ -7361,7 +7481,7 @@ permanence compared to URLs, \enquote{authors should include DOIs
   rather than URLs for sources that make them readily available}
 (14.6; cf.\ 15.9).  (14.184; friedman:learn\-ing).  Cf.\ \textsf{url}.
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace Standard \mymarginpar{\textbf{edition}} \textsf{biblatex}
 field.  If you enter a plain cardinal number, \textsf{biblatex} will
@@ -7452,7 +7572,7 @@ compiler, then you need to put \texttt{compiler} into the
 \textsf{editortype} field, and \textsf{biblatex} will print the
 correct string after the name in the list of references.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace There are a few details of which you need to be aware.
 Because \textsf{biblatex-chicago} has added the \textsf{namea} field,
@@ -7565,7 +7685,7 @@ unpublished archive.  Please see section~\ref{sec:types:authdate}
 above under \textbf{misc} for all the details on how these citations
 work.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Fourth, the field can be defined in the
 \textsf{artwork} entry type in order to refer to a work from antiquity
@@ -7641,7 +7761,7 @@ from the \textsf{author}.  The \emph{Manual} has nothing to say on the
 subject, but \textsf{biblatex-chicago} prints it (them), in
 parentheses, just after the author(s).
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace Standard \mymarginpar{\textbf{howpublished}}
 \textsf{biblatex} field, mainly applicable in the \textsf{booklet}
@@ -7769,7 +7889,7 @@ language or a translation to either of the latter two, you could
 probably manage it with special formatting inside those fields
 themselves.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace I \mymarginpar{\textbf{lista}} intend this field
 specifically for presenting citations from reference works that are
@@ -7796,7 +7916,7 @@ If the place of publication is unknown, you can use
 \cmd{autocap\{n\}.p.}\ instead (14.138).  For all cities, you should
 use the common English version of the name, if such exists (14.137).
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Two other uses need explanation here.  In
 \textsf{article}, \textsf{periodical}, and \textsf{review} entries,
@@ -7816,11 +7936,11 @@ provide the parentheses (14.246; ellis:blog).
 \mybigspace The \mymarginpar{\textbf{maintitle}} main title for a
 multi-volume work, e.g., \enquote{Opera} or \enquote{Collected Works.}
 It no longer takes sentence-style capitalization in
-\textsf{authordate}, though it does in
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}.  In cross references produced
-using the \textsf{crossref} field, the \textsf{title} of \textbf{mv*}
-entry types always becomes a \textsf{maintitle} in the child entry.
-(See donne:var, euripides:\-orestes, harley:cartography, lach:asia,
+\textsf{authordate}, though it does in \textsf{authordate-trad}.  In
+cross references produced using the \textsf{crossref} field, the
+\textsf{title} of \textbf{mv*} entry types always becomes a
+\textsf{maintitle} in the child entry.  (See donne:var,
+euripides:\-orestes, harley:cartography, lach:asia,
 pelikan:chris\-tian, and plato:re\-public:gr.)
 
 \mybigspace An \mymarginpar{\textbf{maintitleaddon}} annex to the
@@ -8010,7 +8130,7 @@ and below in section~\ref{sec:authuseropts}.  See creel:house,
 eliot:pound, emerson:nature, ency:britannica, herwign:office,
 lecarre:quest, and maitland:canon for examples of the field in use.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace A \mymarginpar{\textbf{organization}} standard
 \textsf{biblatex} field, retained mainly for use in the \textsf{misc},
@@ -8048,33 +8168,32 @@ instead.)
 
 \mylittlespace Because of the importance of date specifications in the
 author-date styles, \textsf{bibla\-tex-chicago-authordate} and
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}} provide options and automated
-behaviors that allow you to emphasize the \textsf{origdate} in
-citations and at the head of entries in the list of references.  In
-entries which have \emph{only} an \textsf{origdate} --- usually
-\textsf{misc} with an \textsf{entrysubtype} --- \textsf{Biber} and the
-default \cmd{DeclareLabeldate} configuration make it possible to do
-without a \texttt{cmsdate} option, as the \textsf{origdate} will
-automatically appear where and as it should.  In \textsf{book}-like
-entries with both a \textsf{date} and an \textsf{origdate}, the 16th
-edition of the \emph{Manual} recommends that you present, in citations
-and at the head of reference list entries, only the \textsf{date} or
-both dates together.  The latter is accomplished using the
-\texttt{cmsdate} entry option.  In some cases it may even be necessary
-to reverse the two date fields, putting the earlier year in
-\textsf{date} and the later in \textsf{origdate}.  If your reference
-apparatus contains many such instances, it may well be convenient for
-you instead to use the new \colmarginpar{\texttt{cmsdate}\\\emph{in
-    preamble}} \texttt{cmsdate} preamble option, which I have designed
-in an attempt to reduce the amount of manual intervention needed to
-present lots of entries with multiple dates.  In short, setting
-\texttt{cmsdate} to \texttt{both} or \texttt{on} in the preamble
-promotes the \textsf{origdate} to the top of the search for a
-\textsf{labeldate} to use in citations and at the head of entries in
-the reference list.  This can solve many problems with the
-\textsf{extrayear} field --- 1978\textbf{a} --- and also with sorting
-in the reference list.  Please see above under \textbf{date} for all
-the details on how these options interact.
+\textsf{authordate-trad} provide options and automated behaviors that
+allow you to emphasize the \textsf{origdate} in citations and at the
+head of entries in the list of references.  In entries which have
+\emph{only} an \textsf{origdate} --- usually \textsf{misc} with an
+\textsf{entrysubtype} --- \textsf{Biber} and the default
+\cmd{DeclareLabeldate} configuration make it possible to do without a
+\texttt{cmsdate} option, as the \textsf{origdate} will automatically
+appear where and as it should.  In \textsf{book}-like entries with
+both a \textsf{date} and an \textsf{origdate}, the 16th edition of the
+\emph{Manual} recommends that you present, in citations and at the
+head of reference list entries, only the \textsf{date} or both dates
+together.  The latter is accomplished using the \texttt{cmsdate} entry
+option.  In some cases it may even be necessary to reverse the two
+date fields, putting the earlier year in \textsf{date} and the later
+in \textsf{origdate}.  If your reference apparatus contains many such
+instances, it may well be convenient for you instead to use the new
+\colmarginpar{\texttt{cmsdate}\\\emph{in preamble}} \texttt{cmsdate}
+preamble option, which I have designed in an attempt to reduce the
+amount of manual intervention needed to present lots of entries with
+multiple dates.  In short, setting \texttt{cmsdate} to \texttt{both}
+or \texttt{on} in the preamble promotes the \textsf{origdate} to the
+top of the search for a \textsf{labeldate} to use in citations and at
+the head of entries in the reference list.  This can solve many
+problems with the \textsf{extrayear} field --- 1978\textbf{a} --- and
+also with sorting in the reference list.  Please see above under
+\textbf{date} for all the details on how these options interact.
 
 \mylittlespace In the default configuration of \cmd{DeclareLabeldate},
 dates for citations and for the head of reference list entries are
@@ -8118,7 +8237,7 @@ numbers, some improvisation may be needed if you wish to include
 \textsf{titleaddon}, but in other entry types you may need to use the
 \textsf{location} field.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace In \mymarginpar{\textbf{origlanguage}} keeping with the
 \emph{Manual}'s specifications, I have fairly thoroughly redefined
@@ -8194,7 +8313,7 @@ the \textsf{origdate}, and all will be presented in long notes and
 bibliography.  (Cf.\ \textsf{origdate}, \textsf{origlocation}, and
 \textsf{pubstate}; schweitzer:bach.)
 
-\mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{pages}} is the standard
+\mybigspace This \colmarginpar{\textbf{pages}} is the standard
 \textsf{biblatex} field for providing page references.  In many
 \textsf{article} entries you'll find this contains something other
 than a page number, e.g. a section name or edition specification
@@ -8210,6 +8329,22 @@ mechanisms for specifying what sort of division a given \textsf{pages}
 field contains; and \textsf{usera} discusses a different way to
 present the section information pertaining to a newspaper article.
 
+\mylittlespace David Gohlke has recently brought to my attention a
+discussion that took place a couple of years ago on
+\href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44492/biblatex-chicago-style-page-ranges}{Stackexchange}
+regarding the automatic compression of page ranges, e.g., 101-{-}109
+in the .bib file or in the \textsf{postnote} field would become 101--9
+in the document.  \textsf{Biblatex} has long had the facilities for
+providing this, and though the \emph{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 \textsf{postnote} fields, I have made the activation of
+this code a package option, so setting
+\mycolor{\texttt{compresspages=true}} when loading
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago} should automatically give you the
+Chicago-recommended page ranges.
+
 \mybigspace This, \mymarginpar{\textbf{pagination}} a standard
 \textsf{biblatex} field, allows you automatically to prefix the
 appropriate identifying string to information you provide in the
@@ -8296,7 +8431,7 @@ elsewhere then a recording date will be printed in the middle of the
 reference list entry, the original release date will be printed near
 the end, preceded by the appropriate string.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace I \mymarginpar{\textbf{redactor}} have implemented this
 field just as \textsf{biblatex}'s standard styles do, even though the
@@ -8333,7 +8468,7 @@ be \enquote{Orig.\ pub.\ in.}  Please see the documentation on
 \textsf{userf} below for all the details on how to create .bib entries
 for presenting your data.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace A \mymarginpar{\textbf{series}} standard \textsf{biblatex}
 field, usually just a number in an \textsf{article},
@@ -8403,7 +8538,7 @@ most situations, but if you have set \texttt{useauthor=false} (and not
 only \textsf{shorteditor} will be recognized.  Cf.\
 \textsf{editortype}, above.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{shorthand}} is
 \textsf{biblatex}'s mechanism for using abbreviations in citations.
@@ -8478,12 +8613,13 @@ list.  This option will only work if used in tandem with
 twice.  (See 15.36, 13.65, 14.54--55, and also \textsf{biblatex.pdf}
 for more information.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
-\mylittlespace As I mentioned above under \textbf{crossref}, extra
-care is needed when using shorthands with cross-references, and I
-would avoid them in all parent entries, at least in the current state
-of \textsf{biblatex-chicago}.
+\mylittlespace As I mentioned above under \textbf{crossref}, I believe
+it is now safe to use shorthands in parent entries, as this, in the
+standard configuration, gives you the shorthand itself in the child
+entry's abbreviated cross-reference, which may well save space in the
+list of references.
 
 \mybigspace A \mymarginpar{\textbf{shorttitle}} standard
 \textsf{biblatex} field, primarily used to provide an abbreviated
@@ -8529,26 +8665,26 @@ present several reprinted books by the same author.  See
 \mybigspace The \mymarginpar{\textbf{subtitle}} subtitle for a
 \textsf{title} --- see next entry.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
-\mybigspace This \colmarginpar{\textbf{title}} release of
-\textsf{biblatex-chicago} now includes the
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}} style, designed as a kind of hybrid
-style according to indications contained in the 16th edition of the
-\emph{Manual} (14.45).  This \mycolor{\textsf{trad}} style differs
-\emph{only} in the way it treats the \textsf{title} and related
-fields, which retain the forms they have traditionally had in the
-Chicago author-date specifications prior to the latest edition.  Where
-the new edition uses headline-style capitalization, the older editions
-used sentence-style; where the new edition places \textsf{article} or
-\textsf{incollection} \textsf{titles} within quotation marks, the
-older editions presented them in plain text.  If you have been using
-the 15th-edition author-date style, then your \textsf{title} fields
-won't need any changes for \mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}, but I
-shall include just below, under a separate rubric, full documentation
-for \mycolor{\textsf{trad}} \textsf{title} fields for those just
-coming to the package.  First, though, I document the same field(s)
-for the standard author-date style.
+\mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{title}} release of
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago} now includes the \textsf{authordate-trad}
+style, designed as a kind of hybrid style according to indications
+contained in the 16th edition of the \emph{Manual} (14.45).  This
+\textsf{trad} style differs \emph{only} in the way it treats the
+\textsf{title} and related fields, which retain the forms they have
+traditionally had in the Chicago author-date specifications prior to
+the latest edition.  Where the new edition uses headline-style
+capitalization, the older editions used sentence-style; where the new
+edition places \textsf{article} or \textsf{incollection}
+\textsf{titles} within quotation marks, the older editions presented
+them in plain text.  If you have been using the 15th-edition
+author-date style, then your \textsf{title} fields won't need any
+changes for \textsf{authordate-trad}, but I shall include just below,
+under a separate rubric, full documentation for \textsf{trad}
+\textsf{title} fields for those just coming to the package.  First,
+though, I document the same field(s) for the standard author-date
+style.
 
 \mylittlespace In the vast majority of cases, this field works just as
 it always has in \textsc{Bib}\TeX, and just as it does in
@@ -8657,25 +8793,24 @@ assuming that such a \textsf{title} begins with a lowercase letter in
 your .bib database.  See \textbf{\textbackslash autocap} below for
 more details.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
-
-\mybigspace When \colmarginpar{\textbf{title (trad)}} you choose the
-new \mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}} style, your \textsf{title} and
-related fields will need extra care, familiar to users of the
-15th-edition author-date style.  The whole point of using a
-\textsc{Bib}\TeX-based system is for it to do the formatting for you,
-and in most cases \mycolor{\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate-trad}}
-does just that, capitalizing them sentence-style, italicizing them,
-and sometimes both.  There are two situations that require user
-intervention.  First, in titles that take sentence-style
-capitalization, you need, as always in traditional \textsc{Bib}\TeX,
-to assist the algorithms by placing anything that needs to remain
-capitalized within an extra pair of curly braces.  Second, when a
-title is quoted within a title, you need to know some of the rules of
-the Chicago style.  A summary here should serve to clarify them, and
-help you to understand when
-\mycolor{\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate-trad}} might need your
-help in order to comply with them.
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+
+\mybigspace When \mymarginpar{\textbf{title (trad)}} you choose the
+new \textsf{authordate-trad} style, your \textsf{title} and related
+fields will need extra care, familiar to users of the 15th-edition
+author-date style.  The whole point of using a \textsc{Bib}\TeX-based
+system is for it to do the formatting for you, and in most cases
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate-trad} does just that, capitalizing
+them sentence-style, italicizing them, and sometimes both.  There are
+two situations that require user intervention.  First, in titles that
+take sentence-style capitalization, you need, as always in traditional
+\textsc{Bib}\TeX, to assist the algorithms by placing anything that
+needs to remain capitalized within an extra pair of curly braces.
+Second, when a title is quoted within a title, you need to know some
+of the rules of the Chicago style.  A summary here should serve to
+clarify them, and help you to understand when
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate-trad} might need your help in
+order to comply with them.
 
 \mylittlespace With regard to sentence-style capitalization, the rules
 of the Chicago \textsf{authordate-trad} style are fairly simple:
@@ -8872,7 +9007,7 @@ translator's name, behavior that can be controlled with the
 \textsf{author}, \textsf{editor}, \textsf{namea}, \textsf{nameb}, and
 \textsf{namec}.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{type}} is a standard
 \textsf{biblatex} field, and in its normal usage serves to identify
@@ -8932,7 +9067,7 @@ sirosh:visualcortex, wikiped:bibtex).  In the default setting of
 \textsf{urldate} to find a year for citations and the list of
 references (grove:sibelius, wikiped:bibtex).
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace A \mymarginpar{\textbf{usera}} supplemental
 \textsf{biblatex} field which functions in \textsf{biblatex-chicago}
@@ -9014,7 +9149,7 @@ can translate the title and use that translation in your
 \textbf{language}, above.  (See 14.108--110, 14.194; kern,
 pirumova:russian, weresz.)
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{userf}} is the last of the
 supplemental fields which \textsf{biblatex} provides, and is used by
@@ -9229,7 +9364,7 @@ though I have added the last, style-specific, one.  If Lehman
 generalizes it still further in a future release, I shall do the same,
 if possible.
 
-\enlargethispage{-2\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{-2\baselineskip}
 
 \mybigspace This \mymarginpar{\textbf{\textbackslash mkbibquote}} is
 the standard \textsf{biblatex} command, which requires attention here
@@ -9327,7 +9462,7 @@ intended them for use when a particular name applied only to a
 specific \textsf{title}, rather than to a \textsf{maintitle} or
 \textsf{booktitle} (cf.\ \textbf{namea} and \textbf{nameb}, above).
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace In the present instance, you can use \cmd{partcomp} to
 identify a compiler when \textsf{namec} (or \textsf{editortype}) won't
@@ -9369,9 +9504,9 @@ whose name doesn't conveniently fit into the usual fields
 
 The \textsf{biblatex} package is particularly rich in citation
 commands, most of which, in \textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate} and
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}, function as they do in the
-standard author-date styles.  If you are getting unexpected behavior
-when using them please have a look in your .log file.  A command like
+\textsf{authordate-trad}, function as they do in the standard
+author-date styles.  If you are getting unexpected behavior when using
+them please have a look in your .log file.  A command like
 \cmd{supercite}, listed in §~3.6.2 of the \textsf{biblatex} manual but
 not defined by \textsf{biblatex-chicago-authordate} or by core
 \textsf{biblatex}, defaults to \cmd{cite}, and leaves a warning in the
@@ -9416,9 +9551,8 @@ you the \textsf{biblatex} defaults unless you redefine them yourself
 inside the square brackets.
 
 \mylittlespace \textsf{Biblatex-chicago-authordate}
-\mymarginpar{\texttt{autocite=\\inline}} and
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}} place references in parentheses by
-default.
+\mymarginpar{\texttt{autocite=\\inline}} and \textsf{authordate-trad}
+place references in parentheses by default.
 
 \mybigspace The \mymarginpar{\texttt{citetracker=\\true}} citetracker
 for the \cmd{ifciteseen} test is enabled globally.
@@ -9451,7 +9585,7 @@ cite command provides a postnote --- from this release of
 parentheses, but you will get another standard citation, which may add
 too much clutter.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace This \mymarginpar{\texttt{labelyear=\\true}} option
 tells \textsf{biblatex} to provide the special \textsf{labelyear} and
@@ -9500,8 +9634,8 @@ two such entries have the same \textsf{year} (15.28).  The option is
 \textsf{Biber}-only, like the following, which means that this
 next-generation \textsc{Bib}\TeX\ replacement is required for the
 author-date styles.  Please see \textsf{cms-dates-sample.pdf} (or
-\mycolor{\textsf{cms-trad-sample.pdf}}) and
-section~\ref{sec:otherhints:auth}, below, for further details.
+\textsf{cms-trad-sample.pdf}) and section~\ref{sec:otherhints:auth},
+below, for further details.
 
 \mylittlespace This \mymarginpar{\texttt{uniquename=\\minfull}}
 enables the package to distinguish different authors who share a
@@ -9509,6 +9643,8 @@ surname, using initials in the first instance, and whole names if
 initials aren't enough (15.21).  The option is \textsf{Biber}-only,
 like the previous one.
 
+\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+
 \mylittlespace This \mymarginpar{\texttt{usetranslator\\=true}}
 enables automatic use of the \textsf{translator} at the head of
 entries in the absence of an \textsf{author} or an \textsf{editor}.
@@ -9685,7 +9821,7 @@ whether any \textsf{isan}, \textsf{isbn}, \textsf{ismn},
 true, and can be set to false either in the preamble, for the whole
 document, or on a per-entry basis, in the \textsf{options} field.
 
-%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Once \mymarginpar{\texttt{numbermonth=\\true}} again
 at the request of Scot Becker, I have included this option, which
@@ -9848,7 +9984,7 @@ and \textsf{proceedings} entries, please see
 \mycolor{\texttt{booklongxref}}, above, and also the documentation of
 \textsf{crossref} in section~\ref{sec:fields:authdate}.
 
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace This \mymarginpar{\texttt{nodates=true}} option means
 that for all entry types except \textsf{inreference}, \textsf{misc},
@@ -9879,9 +10015,9 @@ and \texttt{useeditor=false} do remove the \textsf{author} and
 \label{sec:authuseropts}
 
 These are parts of the specification that not everyone will wish to
-enable.  All except the third can be used even if you load the package
-in the old way via a call to \textsf{biblatex}, but most users can
-just place the appropriate string(s) in the options to the
+enable.  All except the fourth can be used even if you load the
+package in the old way via a call to \textsf{biblatex}, but most users
+can just place the appropriate string(s) in the options to the
 \cmd{usepackage\{biblatex-chicago\}} call in your preamble.
 
 \mylittlespace At \mymarginpar{\texttt{annotation}} the request of
@@ -9974,6 +10110,14 @@ some reason you want to set it to true without any of the other
 effects of the \texttt{cmsdate} option, then you can.  The effects may
 surprise.
 
+\mylittlespace When \colmarginpar{\texttt{compresspages}} set to
+\texttt{true}, any page ranges in your .bib file or in the
+\textsf{postnote} field of your citation commands will be compressed
+in accordance with the \emph{Manual's} specifications (9.60).
+Something like 321-{-}328 in your .bib file would become 321--28 in
+your document.  See the \textsf{pages} field in
+section~\ref{sec:fields:authdate}, above.
+
 \mylittlespace Although \mymarginpar{\texttt{footmarkoff}} the
 \emph{Manual} (14.19) recommends specific formatting for footnote (and
 endnote) marks, i.e., superscript in the text and in-line in foot- or
@@ -9989,21 +10133,21 @@ once again footnote marks will revert to the \LaTeX\ default, but of
 course you also lose a fair amount of other formatting, as well.  See
 section~\ref{sec:loading:auth}, below.
 
-%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
-
 \mylittlespace Several \mymarginpar{\texttt{headline}\\\texttt{(trad
     only)}} users requested an option that turned off the automatic
 transformations that produce sentence-style capitalization in the
 title fields of the 15th-edition author-date style.  I have,
-therefore, also included it in \mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}.  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.  It works by redefining the command
+therefore, also included it in \textsf{authordate-trad}.  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.  It works by redefining the command
 \cmd{MakeSentenceCase}, so in the unlikely event you are using the
 latter anywhere in your document please be aware that it will also be
 turned off there.
 
+\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+
 \mylittlespace The \mymarginpar{\texttt{juniorcomma}} \emph{Manual}
 (6.47) states that \enquote{commas are not required around \emph{Jr.}\
   and \emph{Sr.},} so by default \textsf{biblatex-chicago} has
@@ -10048,6 +10192,28 @@ use the \cmd{citereset} command, allied possibly with the
 \textsf{biblatex}\ \texttt{citereset} option, on which see
 \textsf{biblatex.pdf} §3.1.2.1.
 
+\mylittlespace Originally
+\colmarginpar{\texttt{postnotepunct}\\(experimental)} designed for the
+notes \&\ bibliography style, this option may in fact be more useful in
+the \textsf{authordate} styles.  If set to \texttt{true}, it allows
+you to alter the punctuation that appears just before the
+\textsf{postnote} argument of citation commands, simplifying in
+particular the provision of comments within parenthetical citations.
+In previous releases, you either needed to include the comment after a
+page number, e.g., \cmd{autocite[16; some comment]\{citekey\}}, or
+provide a separate .bib entry using the \textsf{customc} entry type,
+e.g., \cmd{autocites\{chicago:man\-ual\}\{chicago:comment\}}.  Now, with
+this option enabled, \cmd{autocite[; some comment]\{citekey\}} will
+do.  More generally, the \mycolor{\texttt{postnotepunct}} option
+allows you to start the \textsf{postnote} field with a punctuation
+mark (.\,,\,;\,:) and have it appear as the \cmd{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 \mycolor{experimental}.  Note also that the
+option only affects the \textsf{postnote} field of citation commands,
+not the \textsf{pages} field in your .bib file.
+
 \mylittlespace Kenneth Pearce \mymarginpar{\texttt{shorthandfull}} has
 suggested that, in some fields of study, a list of shorthands
 providing full bibliographical information may replace the list of
@@ -10172,13 +10338,12 @@ and you may, if your .bib entry is a complete one, also need
 \subsubsection{Loading the Styles}
 \label{sec:loading:auth}
 
-With the addition of the \mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}} style to
-the package, there are now three keys for choosing which style to
-load, \texttt{notes}, \texttt{authordate}, and
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}, one of which you put in the
-options to the \cmd{usepackage} command.  With early versions of
-\textsf{biblatex-chicago}, the standard way of loading the package was
-via a call to \textsf{biblatex}, e.g.:
+With the addition of the \textsf{authordate-trad} style to the
+package, there are now three keys for choosing which style to load,
+\texttt{notes}, \texttt{authordate}, and \textsf{authordate-trad}, one
+of which you put in the options to the \cmd{usepackage} command.  With
+early versions of \textsf{biblatex-chicago}, the standard way of
+loading the package was via a call to \textsf{biblatex}, e.g.:
 \begin{quote}
   \cmd{usepackage[style=chicago-authordate,strict,backend=biber,\%\\
     babel=other,bibencoding=inputenc]\{biblatex\}}
@@ -10297,7 +10462,7 @@ reevaluate how much information you're providing.  I've tried to make
 data-rich citations, but there may be instances where you can save
 yourself some typing by keeping it simple.
 
-% \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+% %\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 
 \mylittlespace Scot Becker has pointed out to me that the inverse
 problem not only exists but may well become increasingly common, to
@@ -10454,12 +10619,12 @@ This is, I believe, the simpler conversion, as most well-constructed
 nonetheless:
 
 \begin{enumerate}
-\item \textbf{NB:} Unless you are using
-  \mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}, the formatting of titles in the
-  two styles is now the same, which means you would no longer need to
-  worry about extra curly brackets and their affects on
-  capitalization.  If you are using \textsf{authordate-trad}, please
-  see the caveats in the documentation of the \textsf{title} field in
+\item \textbf{NB:} Unless you are using \textsf{authordate-trad}, the
+  formatting of titles in the two styles is now the same, which means
+  you would no longer need to worry about extra curly brackets and
+  their effects on capitalization.  If you are using
+  \textsf{authordate-trad}, please see the caveats in the
+  documentation of the \textsf{title} field in
   section~\ref{sec:fields:authdate}, above.
 \item You may need to reevaluate your use of shorthands, given that by
   default the author-date styles use them in place of authors rather
@@ -10501,7 +10666,7 @@ of the things you may need to address:
   in their use than the notes \&\ bibliography style.  (Cf.\ 14.179.)
   The bibstrings mechanism and package options sort much of this out
   automatically, but not all.
-\item The \textsf{shorttitle} field is used extensively in notes \&
+\item The \textsf{shorttitle} field is used extensively in notes \&\
   bibliography to keep short notes short, so you may find that you
   need to add a fair number of these to an author-date database.  In
   general this field is ignored by the latter style, so this, too,
@@ -10568,14 +10733,14 @@ package.
 
 This release implements the 16th edition of the \emph{Chicago Manual
   of Style}.  It now also contains a version of the author-date style
-(\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}) with traditional title
-formatting, alongside the \textsf{authordate} code which unifies the
-treatment of titles between itself and the notes \&\ bibliography
-style.  I hope that users will migrate to one of these styles
-implementing the most recent specification, as I am focusing my
-development and testing time there.  With the current release, I am
-calling the 15th-edition styles \enquote{strongly deprecated,} but if
-you still have urgent feature requests for them, I'll do what I can.
+(\textsf{authordate-trad}) with traditional title formatting,
+alongside the \textsf{authordate} code which unifies the treatment of
+titles between itself and the notes \&\ bibliography style.  I hope
+that users will migrate to one of these styles implementing the most
+recent specification, as I am focusing my development and testing time
+there.  With the current release, I am calling the 15th-edition styles
+\enquote{strongly deprecated,} but if you still have urgent feature
+requests for them, I'll do what I can.
 
 \mylittlespace Regardless of which edition you are considering, there
 are a number of things I haven't implemented.  The solution in
@@ -10640,14 +10805,18 @@ above, but it's possible the package may need some changes to cope
 with all the permutations.  Please let me know if you find something
 that looks like a bug.
 
+\mylittlespace Speaking of \textsf{dates}, now that there's an option
+for the automatic compression of page ranges, something similar could
+perhaps be provided for year ranges.  I shall be looking into this.
+
 \mylittlespace Roger Hart, Pierric Sans, and a number of other users
 have reported a bug in the formatting of title fields.  This, as far
 as I can tell, has to do with the interaction between
 \cmd{MakeSentenceCase} and certain characters at the start of the
 title, particularly Unicode ones.  If you are using
-\mycolor{\textsf{authordate-trad}}, it may help for the moment to put
-an empty set of curly braces \{\}\ at the start of the field, but I
-shall look into this further.
+\textsf{authordate-trad}, it may help for the moment to put an empty
+set of curly braces \{\}\ at the start of the field, but I shall look
+into this further.
 
 \mylittlespace Roger Hart has requested that I incorporate some means
 of changing the punctuation before \textsf{titleaddon} fields, perhaps
@@ -10657,6 +10826,8 @@ provide this in the next release.  He has also requested, despite the
 \texttt{Idem} and \texttt{Ibid.}\ in notes.  I shall look into this
 for the next major release.
 
+\enlargethispage{-4\baselineskip}
+
 \mylittlespace This release fixes the formatting errors of which I am
 aware, though users writing in French should be aware of problems with
 the \cmd{partedit} command in section~\ref{sec:formatcommands} above.
@@ -10679,7 +10850,101 @@ code for it, let me know, and I'll look into it.
 \section{Revision History}
 \label{sec:history}
 
-\textbf{0.9.9e: Released \today}
+\textbf{0.9.9f: Released \today}
+\begin{itemize}
+\item I've \label{deprec:obsol} made the alterations needed to bring
+  the styles into line with the latest version of \textsf{biblatex}
+  (2.9a).  This is the version that has been tested most thoroughly
+  with \textsf{biblatex-chicago}, so I strongly recommend using it.
+\item I fixed several inaccuracies in the presentation of abbreviated
+  cross-referen\-ces 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.
+\item First, following a request from Alexandre Roberts, I have added
+  the \mycolor{\texttt{inher\-itshorthand}} option to the notes \&\
+  bibliography style, which allows child entries to inherit the
+  \textsf{shorthand} field from their parents.  This in turn allows
+  the \textsf{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 \texttt{skipbiblist} in the
+  \textsf{options} field of child entries to make the list of
+  shorthands work correctly.  Please see the documentation of the
+  \textsf{shorthand} field for the full explanation.
+\item 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 \textsf{userf} field) or of the original
+  publication details of an essay or chapter you are citing from a
+  subsequent reprint (via the \textsf{reprinttitle} field).  See the
+  documentation of those fields, and also of \textsf{crossref}, and
+  note that you can now, taking certain precautions as outlined in the
+  \textsf{shorthand} docs, combine the \textsf{userf},
+  \textsf{crossref}, and \textsf{shorthand} fields.  This mechanism
+  contains a great many moving parts, so please report any problems
+  you might have with it.
+\item Third, and finally, following a bug report by Mark van Atten I
+  have fixed all Chicago styles so that the \textsf{biblatex}
+  \texttt{backref} mechanism works properly in
+  \textsf{biblatex-chicago}, including in those entries that use
+  abbreviated cross-references, and in those that use the
+  \textsf{userf} or \textsf{reprinttitle} fields.  I can't see any
+  instructions concerning this in the \emph{Manual}, so I've left the
+  formatting of \texttt{backref} lists in the hands of
+  \textsf{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.
+\item I have added a new \mycolor{\texttt{compresspages}} option to
+  all the Chicago styles.  If set to \texttt{true} it automatically
+  compresses page ranges in the \textsf{pages} and \textsf{postnote}
+  fields, allowing you to type ranges naturally, e.g., 101-{-}109, and
+  letting the package follow the \emph{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
+  \href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44492/biblatex-chicago-style-page-ranges}{Stackexchange}
+  regarding the automatic compression of page ranges.
+  \textsf{Biblatex} has long had the facilities for providing this,
+  and though the \emph{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 \textsf{postnote} fields, I have made the activation of this
+  code a package option.
+\item Several users, most recently David Gohlke, have requested a way
+  to alter the punctuation that appears just before the
+  \textsf{postnote} argument of citation commands.  This allows, in
+  the notes \&\ bibliography style, citations to fit better into the
+  flow of text, while in the \textsf{authordate} 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 \emph{Manual}, but as a first stab at enabling this greater
+  flexibility, I have introduced the \mycolor{\texttt{postnotepunct}}
+  package option.  Set to \texttt{true}, it allows you to start the
+  \textsf{postnote} field with a punctuation mark (.\,,\,;\,:) and
+  have it appear as the \cmd{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
+  \mycolor{experimental}.  Note also that the option only affects the
+  \textsf{postnote} field of citation commands, not the \textsf{pages}
+  field in your .bib file.  Note, finally, that if you are using the
+  new \mycolor{\texttt{compresspages}} option then any
+  \textsf{postnote} field starting with a punctuation mark will
+  require you to do the compression of page ranges yourself.
+\item I've added a new inheritance declaration so that
+  \textbf{incollection} entries can inherit from \textbf{book} entries
+  the same way they inherit from \textbf{mvbook}.
+\item I've fixed a fair number of other bugs, including two in the
+  \emph{Ibidem} mechanism pointed out by Bernd Rellermeyer, one in the
+  printing of dates, and one in the \cmd{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 \textsf{entrysubtype}) has also been made more accurate.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\textbf{0.9.9e: Released January 29, 2014}
 \begin{itemize}
 \item This minor release fixes a regression in the \emph{Ibidem}
   mechanism in the notes \&\ bibliography style, spotted by Harold
@@ -10750,7 +11015,7 @@ code for it, let me know, and I'll look into it.
   of your document to redefine the new \mycolor{\cmd{foottextcite}}
   and \mycolor{\cmd{foottextcites}} commands to change this
   formatting.  See section~\ref{sec:formatcommands}, above.
-\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
 \item This release includes support, in all styles, for
   \textsf{biblatex's} multi-volume entry types: \textbf{mvbook},
   \textbf{mvcollection}, \textbf{mvproceedings}, and
@@ -10925,11 +11190,10 @@ code for it, let me know, and I'll look into it.
 
 \textbf{0.9.9b: Released December 6, 2012}
 \begin{itemize}
-\item This release \label{deprec:obsol} contains a new variant of the
-  author-date style, available as the
-  \mycolor{\texttt{authordate-trad}} option when loading
-  \textsf{biblatex-chicago}.  This provides the traditional, plain,
-  pre-16th-edition Chicago title handling --- sentence-style
+\item This release contains a new variant of the author-date style,
+  available as the \mycolor{\texttt{authordate-trad}} option when
+  loading \textsf{biblatex-chicago}.  This provides the traditional,
+  plain, pre-16th-edition Chicago title handling --- sentence-style
   capitalization, absence of quotation marks in \textsf{article}
   titles and the like --- but in all other respects follows the
   16th-edition specification, as suggested by the \emph{Manual}
@@ -10979,7 +11243,7 @@ code for it, let me know, and I'll look into it.
   \textsf{postnote} field, then only that will appear.
 \end{itemize}
 
-%\enlargethispage{-2\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-2\baselineskip}
 
 \textbf{0.9.9a: Released July 30, 2012}
 \begin{itemize}
@@ -11030,7 +11294,7 @@ Edition:
 \item In \textbf{suppbook} entries, the \emph{Manual} now requires you
   to provide the page range (in the \textsf{pages} field) for the
   specific part you are citing, e.g., an introduction, foreword, or
-  afterword.%\enlargethispage{-2\baselineskip}
+  afterword.%%\enlargethispage{-2\baselineskip}
 \item In \textbf{patent} entries, the \emph{Manual} now prefers
   sentence-style capitalization for titles, which you'll need to
   provide yourself by hand.
@@ -11746,7 +12010,7 @@ Other New Features:
   field if you would like to test this functionality.
 \end{itemize}
 
-%\enlargethispage{-3\baselineskip}
+%%\enlargethispage{-3\baselineskip}
 
 \textbf{0.8.9a: Released July 5, 2009}
 \begin{itemize}
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago15.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago15.pdf
index 7e4f9ee3969..b8ee77328bd 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago15.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago15.pdf
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago15.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago15.tex
index 5151136ea1b..cb0815fbe02 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago15.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/biblatex-chicago15.tex
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
   15th-edition style files for biblatex
 
 \vspace{.3\baselineskip}
-\sffamily\normalsize\bfseries David Fussner\qquad Version 0.9.9e (beta) \\
+\sffamily\normalsize\bfseries David Fussner\qquad Version 0.9.9f (beta) \\
 \href{mailto:djf027@googlemail.com}{djf027@googlemail.com}\\ \today
 
 \end{center} 
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ release.
 
 \begin{itemize}{}{}
 \item Philipp Lehman's \textsf{biblatex} package, of course!  You
-  should use the latest version(s) --- 1.7 or 2.8a --- as those
+  should use the latest version(s) --- 1.7 or 2.9a --- as those
   versions have been tested more thoroughly than any other, meaning
   that these style files may well not function properly with earlier
   iterations of \textsf{biblatex}. Lehman's tools require several
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ release.
     following:
   \item \textsf{Biber} --- the next-generation \textsc{Bib}\TeX\
     replacement, which is available from SourceForge.  You should use
-    the latest version, 1.8, to work with \textsf{biblatex} 2.8a, and
+    the latest version, 1.9, to work with \textsf{biblatex} 2.9a, and
     it is required for users who are either using the author-date
     style or processing a .bib file in Unicode.  See
     \textsf{cms15-dates-sample.pdf} for more details.
@@ -8565,7 +8565,13 @@ code for it, let me know, and I'll look into it.
 \section{Revision History}
 \label{sec:history}
 
-\textbf{0.9.9e: Released \today}
+\textbf{0.9.9f: Released \today}
+\begin{itemize}
+\item Small changes to both styles so that they compile with the
+  latest \textsf{biblatex} (2.9a).  No other fixes.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\textbf{0.9.9e: Released January 29, 2014}
 \begin{itemize}
 \item No changes to the 15th-edition styles.
 \end{itemize}
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.pdf
index 6f86f492870..08bd6675a95 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.pdf
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.tex
index 97d51bb1cca..a21ef1cc008 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.tex
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 \usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
 %\usepackage[document]{ragged2e}
 \usepackage[authordate,backend=biber,autolang=hyphen,booklongxref=false,%
-bibencoding=latin1,strict]{biblatex-chicago}
+bibencoding=latin1,postnotepunct,compresspages,strict]{biblatex-chicago}
 % \usepackage[style=chicago-authordate,backend=biber,usecompiler=true,%
 % babel=hyphen,bibencoding=auto,sorting=nyt,cmslos,autocite=inline]{biblatex}
 %\renewcommand*{\rmdefault}{fgn}% The font (gentium) used for pdf
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ Starting with \textsf{biblatex} version 1.5, in order to adhere to the
 author-date specification you will need to use \textsf{Biber} to
 process your .bib files, as \textsc{Bib}\TeX\ (and its more recent
 variants) will no longer provide all the features the style requires.
-For this release, you really need the latest versions of
-\textsf{Biber} (1.8) and \textsf{biblatex} (2.8a), which contain
+For this release, you really need the current versions of
+\textsf{Biber} (1.9) and \textsf{biblatex} (2.9a), which contain
 features and bug-fixes on which my own code relies.  The advice that
 follows in this document assumes that you are using \textsf{Biber}; if
 you wish to continue using \textsc{Bib}\TeX\ then you need
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ in standard author-date format.)  A \cmd{cite*} or \cmd{autocite*}
 command will, in such a case, produce the title rather than the year.
 Some examples should make this clearer:
 
-\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 Classical works: without abbreviation:
 \autocite{aristotle:metaphy:trans}; with abbreviation:
@@ -343,11 +343,15 @@ it will need to be separated by a semicolon
 \autocite[15.23]{chicago:manual}.  If you have a \textsf{postnote},
 then you can manually provide the punctuation and comment in that
 field, e.g., \autocite[4; the unrevised trans.]{stendhal:parma}.
-Without a \textsf{postnote}, you'll need a separate \textsf{Misc} or
-\textsf{CustomC} entry containing just the text of the comment in the
-\textsf{title} field, \textsf{entrysubtype} \texttt{classical}, and
-\textsf{options} \texttt{skipbib}.  An \cmd{autocites} command calling
-both the main text and the comment will do the trick, e.g.,
+Without a \textsf{postnote}, you now have two choices.  You can enable
+the new \texttt{postnotepunct} package option, which allows you simply
+to type \cmd{autocite[; the unrevised trans.]\{stendhal:parma\}}
+\citereset\autocite[; the unrevised trans.]{stendhal:parma}, or you
+can continue to use a separate \textsf{Misc} or \textsf{CustomC} entry
+containing just the text of the comment in the \textsf{title} field,
+\textsf{entrysubtype} \texttt{classical}, and \textsf{options}
+\texttt{skipbib}.  An \cmd{autocites} command calling both the main
+text and the comment will then do the trick, e.g.,
 \autocites{chicago:manual}{chicago:comment}.
 
 \subsubsection*{Multiple authors}
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-notes-sample.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-notes-sample.pdf
index aa155f785b3..1790f58cc97 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-notes-sample.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-notes-sample.pdf
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-notes-sample.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-notes-sample.tex
index 8b5be60a39b..23521f68aa1 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-notes-sample.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-notes-sample.tex
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 \usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
 \usepackage[document]{ragged2e}
 \usepackage[notes,strict,backend=biber,autolang=other,%
-bibencoding=latin1,booklongxref=false]{biblatex-chicago}
+bibencoding=latin1,booklongxref=false,compresspages]{biblatex-chicago}
 %%\usepackage[osf]{mathpazo}
 %\renewcommand*{\rmdefault}{fgn}% The font (gentium) used for pdf
 \usepackage{ifthen}
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ note\autocite{beattie:crime}  note\autocite{brown:bremer}
 note\autocite{beethoven:sonata29} note\autocite{bernhard:ritter}
 note\autocite{bernstein:shostakovich} note\autocite{bernhard:boris}
 note\autocite{boxer:china} note\autocite{browning:aurora}
-note\autocite[pt.\ 2:55]{brown:bremer} note\autocite{bundy:macneil}
+note\autocite[pt.\ 2, 55]{brown:bremer} note\autocite{bundy:macneil}
 note\autocite{centinel:letters}.
 
 Note\autocite{chaucer:liferecords} note\autocite{browning:aurora}
@@ -187,46 +187,48 @@ note\autocite{rodman:walk} note\autocite{roosevelt:speech}
 note\autocite{ross:thesis} note\autocite{ratliff:review}
 note\autocite{rozner:liberation} note\autocite{rubinstein:chopin}.
 
-Note\autocite{schellinger:novel} note\autocite{reaves:rosen}
-note\autocite{schubert:muellerin} note\autocite{rodman:walk}
-note\autocite{schweitzer:bach} note\autocite{roosevelt:speech}
-note\autocite{ross:thesis} note\autocite{rozner:liberation}
-note\autocite{rubinstein:chopin} note\autocite{sechzer:women}
-note\autocite{schellinger:novel} note\autocite{sereny:cries}
-note\autocite{schubert:muellerin} note\autocite{schweitzer:bach}
-note.\footnote{\headlessfullcite{sewall:letter}.}
+Note\autocite{saberhagen:beluga} note\autocite{schellinger:novel}
+note\autocite{reaves:rosen} note\autocite{schubert:muellerin}
+note\autocite{rodman:walk} note\autocite{schweitzer:bach}
+note\autocite{roosevelt:speech} note\autocite{ross:thesis}
+note\autocite{rozner:liberation} note\autocite{rubinstein:chopin}
+note\autocite{sechzer:women} note\autocite{schellinger:novel}
+note\autocite{sereny:cries} note\autocite{schubert:muellerin}
+note\autocite{saberhagen:beluga}.
 
-Note\autocite{shapey:partita} note\autocite{sechzer:women}
+Note\autocite{schweitzer:bach}
+note\footnote{\headlessfullcite{sewall:letter}.}
+note\autocite{shapey:partita} note\autocite{sechzer:women}
 note\autocite{sirosh:visualcortex} note\autocite{sereny:cries}
 note\autocite{silver:gawain}
 note\footnote{\headlesscite{sewall:letter}.}
 note\autocite{soltes:georgia} note\autocite{sirosh:visualcortex}
-note\autocite{spock:interview} note\autocite{shapey:partita}
-note\autocite{stenger:privacy} note\autocite{silver:gawain}.
+note\autocite{spock:interview} note\autocite{shapey:partita}.
 
-Note\autocite{tillich:system} note\autocite{soltes:georgia}
+Note\autocite{stenger:privacy} note\autocite{silver:gawain}
+note\autocite{tillich:system} note\autocite{soltes:georgia}
 note\autocite{spock:interview} note\autocite{times:guide}
 note\autocite{twain:audio} note\autocite{virginia:plantation}
 note\autocite{stenger:privacy} note\autocite{chicago:manual}
-note\autocite{twain:audio} note\autocite[2:45]{tillich:system}
-note\autocite[police ranks]{times:guide}
-note\autocite{virginia:plantation}.
-
-Note\autocite{chicago:manual} note\autocite{unsigned:ranke}
-note\autocite{herwign:office} note\autocite{verdi:corsaro}
-note\autocite{wallraff:word} note\autocite{unsigned:ranke}
-note\autocite{warr:ellison} note\autocite{herwign:office}
-note\autocite{wallraff:word} note\autocite{verdi:corsaro}
-note\autocite{wauchope:ceramics} note\autocite{weed:flatiron}
-note\autocite{weresz}.
-
-Note\autocite{white:callimachus} note\autocite{white:ross:memo}.
+note\autocite{twain:audio} note\autocite[2:45]{tillich:system}.
+
+Note\autocite[police ranks]{times:guide}
+note\autocite{virginia:plantation} note\autocite{chicago:manual}
+note\autocite{unsigned:ranke} note\autocite{herwign:office}
+note\autocite{verdi:corsaro} note\autocite{wallraff:word}
+note\autocite{unsigned:ranke} note\autocite{warr:ellison}
+note\autocite{herwign:office} note\autocite{wallraff:word}
+note\autocite{verdi:corsaro} note\autocite{wauchope:ceramics}.
+
+Note\autocite{weed:flatiron} note\autocite{weresz}.
+note\autocite{white:callimachus} note\autocite{white:ross:memo}
 note\autocite{warr:ellison} note\autocite{weed:flatiron}
 note\autocite{wikiped:bibtex} note\autocite{will:cohere}
 note\autocite{wauchope:ceramics}.  As \textcite{zukowsky:chicago}
-says, note\autocite{weresz} note\autocite{white:russ}.
+says.
 
-Note\autocite{white:callimachus} note\autocite{white:ross:memo}
+Note\autocite{weresz} note\autocite{white:russ}
+note\autocite{white:callimachus} note\autocite{white:ross:memo}
 note\autocite{white:russ} note\autocite[BibTeX]{wikiped:bibtex}
 note\autocite{will:cohere} note\footnote{\textcite{zukowsky:chicago}
   makes a similar point.}
@@ -234,11 +236,11 @@ note\autocites[See][3.2.996b5--8]{aristotle:metaphy:gr}[360e--361b]
 {plato:republic:gr}[and also][for additional
 information]{white:callimachus} note\autocite{aristotle:metaphy:trans}
 note\autocites[See][]{mchugh:wake}[and][569]{warr:ellison}
-note\footnote{\citetitles{warr:ellison}{mchugh:wake}.}
-note\footnote{\Citetitle{powell:email}.}
-note.\footnote{\headlessfullcite[3:126]{meredith:letters}.}
+note.\footnote{\citetitles{warr:ellison}{mchugh:wake}.}
 
-Note\autocite[3:126]{meredith:letters} note\footfullcite[2]{weresz}
+Note\footnote{\Citetitle{powell:email}.}
+note\footnote{\headlessfullcite[3:126]{meredith:letters}.}
+note\autocite[3:126]{meredith:letters} note\footfullcite[2]{weresz}
 note\autocite[2]{weresz} note\footnote{\fullcite{zukowsky:chicago}.}
 note.\footnote{\cite*{zukowsky:chicago}.}
 
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-trad-sample.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-trad-sample.pdf
index da41bb3fa18..9e03d784874 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-trad-sample.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-trad-sample.pdf
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-trad-sample.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-trad-sample.tex
index 09f04c22122..dbcbf724bb5 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-trad-sample.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-trad-sample.tex
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 \usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
 %\usepackage[document]{ragged2e}
 \usepackage[authordate-trad,backend=biber,autolang=hyphen,booklongxref=false,%
-bibencoding=latin1,strict]{biblatex-chicago}
+bibencoding=latin1,postnotepunct,compresspages,strict]{biblatex-chicago}
 % \usepackage[style=chicago-authordate,backend=biber,usecompiler=true,%
 % babel=hyphen,bibencoding=auto,sorting=nyt,cmslos,autocite=inline]{biblatex}
 %\renewcommand*{\rmdefault}{fgn}% The font (gentium) used for pdf
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ Starting with \textsf{biblatex} version 1.5, in order to adhere to the
 author-date specification you will need to use \textsf{Biber} to
 process your .bib files, as \textsc{Bib}\TeX\ (and its more recent
 variants) will no longer provide all the features the style requires.
-For this release, you really need the latest versions of
-\textsf{Biber} (1.8) and \textsf{biblatex} (2.8a), which contain
+For this release, you really need the current versions of
+\textsf{Biber} (1.9) and \textsf{biblatex} (2.9a), which contain
 features and bug-fixes on which my own code relies.  The advice that
 follows in this document assumes that you are using \textsf{Biber}; if
 you wish to continue using \textsc{Bib}\TeX\ then you need
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ in standard author-date format.)  A \cmd{cite*} or \cmd{autocite*}
 command will, in such a case, produce the title rather than the year.
 Some examples should make this clearer:
 
-\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
+%\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}
 
 Classical works: without abbreviation:
 \autocite{aristotle:metaphy:trans}; with abbreviation:
@@ -344,11 +344,15 @@ it will need to be separated by a semicolon
 \autocite[15.23]{chicago:manual}.  If you have a \textsf{postnote},
 then you can manually provide the punctuation and comment in that
 field, e.g., \autocite[4; the unrevised trans.]{stendhal:parma}.
-Without a \textsf{postnote}, you'll need a separate \textsf{Misc} or
-\textsf{CustomC} entry containing just the text of the comment in the
-\textsf{title} field, \textsf{entrysubtype} \texttt{classical}, and
-\textsf{options} \texttt{skipbib}.  An \cmd{autocites} command calling
-both the main text and the comment will do the trick, e.g.,
+Without a \textsf{postnote}, you now have two choices.  You can enable
+the new \texttt{postnotepunct} package option, which allows you simply
+to type \cmd{autocite[; the unrevised trans.]\{stendhal:parma\}}
+\citereset\autocite[; the unrevised trans.]{stendhal:parma}, or you
+can continue to use a separate \textsf{Misc} or \textsf{CustomC} entry
+containing just the text of the comment in the \textsf{title} field,
+\textsf{entrysubtype} \texttt{classical}, and \textsf{options}
+\texttt{skipbib}.  An \cmd{autocites} command calling both the main
+text and the comment will then do the trick, e.g.,
 \autocites{chicago:manual}{chicago:comment}.
 
 \subsubsection*{Multiple authors}
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-dates-sample.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-dates-sample.pdf
index 8cacb5b0304..6bd44cf58e9 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-dates-sample.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-dates-sample.pdf
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-dates-sample.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-dates-sample.tex
index 1d614b2e938..89af085b628 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-dates-sample.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-dates-sample.tex
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ process your .bib files, as \textsc{Bib}\TeX\ (and its more recent
 variants) will no longer provide all the features you need.  I highly
 recommend, therefore, that you upgrade either to \textsf{Biber} 0.9.9
 and to \textsf{biblatex} 1.7, which are designed to work together, or
-to \textsf{Biber} 1.8 and \textsf{biblatex} 2.8a, which latter two are
+to \textsf{Biber} 1.9 and \textsf{biblatex} 2.9a, which latter two are
 the newest releases and are likewise designed to work as a matched
 pair.  The advice that follows in this document assumes that you are
 using \textsf{Biber}; if you wish to continue using \textsc{Bib}\TeX\
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-notes-sample.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-notes-sample.pdf
index f2383b25f5f..ddd4915ef6c 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-notes-sample.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms15-notes-sample.pdf
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/dates-test.bib b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/dates-test.bib
index 526ed2bd72a..ffb02cb2e34 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/dates-test.bib
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/dates-test.bib
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
   journaltitle = {American Psychologist},
   volume =	 45,
   date = 	 {1990-03},
-  pages =	 {336--46},
+  pages =	 {336--346},
   annotation = 	 {Very typical Article entry, but notice the placement
                   of the subtitle in the title field, in order to
                   avoid the printing of the colon usually separating
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@
   volume =	 99,
   editor =       {Good, Thomas~L.},
   number =	 5,
-  pages =	 {131--46},
+  pages =	 {131--146},
   annotation = 	 {An Article that is part of a special issue of a
                   journal. The title of the issue goes in issuetitle,
                   the editor of the issue in editor, and the sort of
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@
   journaltitle = {Water Research},
   date = 	 1982,
   volume = 	 16,
-  pages = 	 {1313--17},
+  pages = 	 {1313--1317},
   annotation = 	 {An article with italicized words in the title.}
 }
 
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@
   journaltitle = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society},
   date = 	 1998,
   volume = 	 {B 353},
-  pages = 	 {327--45},
+  pages = 	 {327--345},
   annotation = 	 {An article in a journal which appears in different
                   series, here "B" for Biological, which information
                   can be given in the volume field.}}
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@
   author = 	 {Ellet, Elizabeth~F.~L.},
   title = 	 {By Rail and Stage to {Galena}},
   crossref =  {prairie:state},
-  pages = 	 {271--79},
+  pages = 	 {271--279},
   annotation = 	 {First of three InCollection entries
                   cross-referencing the same Collection.
                   Cf. keating:dearborn and lippincott:chicago.  All
@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@
   year =	 1999,
   volume =	 110,
   number =	 1,
-  pages =	 {140--164},
+  pages =	 {140--64},
   titleaddon =	 {\bibstring{reviewof} \mkbibemph{The sources of
                   normativity}, \bibstring{by} {Christine M. Korsgaard}},
   annotation = 	 {A book review as an Article.  It has a specific
@@ -1956,7 +1956,7 @@
   year = 	 1938,
   volume = 	 78,
   hyphenation =  {dutch},
-  pages = 	 {271--73},
+  pages = 	 {271--273},
   annotation = 	 {An Article with a Dutch title that may need
                   translating for a significant portion of your
                   readership.  You give the translation in the usere
@@ -2134,7 +2134,7 @@
   author = 	 {Lippincott, Sarah Clarke},
   title = 	 {Chicago},
   crossref =  {prairie:state},
-  pages = 	 {362--70},
+  pages = 	 {362--370},
   annotation = 	 {Third and last of the InCollection entries referring
                   to the same Collection.  The reference list entries
                   of all three are abbreviated. Cf. ellet:galena
@@ -2197,7 +2197,7 @@
   journaltitle = {PMLA},
   date = 	 1960,
   volume = 	 75,
-  pages = 	 {149--51},
+  pages = 	 {149--151},
   annote = 	 {_16th edition only_ An article entry with a quoted
                   title within its title}
 }
@@ -2663,7 +2663,7 @@
   subtitle = 	 {Diary of a Battle},
   booktitle = 	 {The Other Side of Time},
   booksubtitle = {A Combat Surgeon in {World War II}\@},
-  pages = 	 {117--63},
+  pages = 	 {117--163},
   publisher = {Little, Brown},
   year = 	 1987,
   address = 	 {Boston},
@@ -2953,20 +2953,16 @@
 @Article{rozner:liberation,
   journaltitle = {Voprosy istorii},
   year = 	 1979,
-  entrysubtype = {magazine},
   author = 	 {Rozner, I.~G.},
   title = 	 {The War of Liberation of the {Ukrainian} People in
                   1648--1654 and {Russia}},
   number = 	 4,
   language = 	 {russian},
   pages = 	 {51--64},
-  annotation = 	 {This is a Russian journal, with its issues defined
-                  not by volume number but by year.  For the
-                  16th-edition style you need a "magazine"
-                  entrysubtype.  The journaltitle is in transliterated
-                  Russian, but the article title is translated into
-                  English, hence the original language must be
-                  provided in the language field.}
+  annotation = 	 {This is a Russian journal, and its journaltitle is
+                  in transliterated Russian, while its article title
+                  is translated into English, hence the original
+                  language provided in the language field.}
 }
 
 @Music{rubinstein:chopin,
@@ -3004,7 +3000,7 @@
   hyphenation =  {german},
   date = 	 1975,
   volume = 	 56,
-  pages = 	 {191--98},
+  pages = 	 {191--198},
   annotation = 	 {An article in German with the title left
                   untranslated.  The hyphenation field means you don't
                   need additional curly braces in the title to
@@ -3086,7 +3082,7 @@
   journaltitle = {Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society},
   date = 	 {1896-01},
   volume =	 10,
-  pages =	 {412--15},
+  pages =	 {412--415},
   series =	 2,
   annotation = 	 {A letter presented as an article in a scholarly
                   journal, hence the Article entry.  Note plain number
@@ -3236,7 +3232,7 @@
   journaltitle = {BioScience},
   date = 	 1974,
   volume = 	 24,
-  pages = 	 {715--22},
+  pages = 	 {715--722},
   annotation = 	 {A standard Article entry.}}
 
 @Book{thompson:making,
@@ -3253,7 +3249,7 @@
 
 @Book{tillich:system,
   title = 	 {Systematic Theology},
-  year = 	 {1951\---63},
+  year = 	 {1951\bibdatedash 63},
   author = 	 {Tillich, Paul},
   publisher = uchp,
   volumes = 	 3,
@@ -3431,7 +3427,7 @@
   date = 	 {2000-11},
   volume = 	 106,
   number = 	 3,
-  pages = 	 {551--78},
+  pages = 	 {551--578},
   url = 	 {http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/journal/issues/v106n3/050125/050125.html},
   annotation = 	 {An Article with an online version.}
 }
@@ -3506,7 +3502,7 @@
   journaltitle = {Classical Philology},
   date = 	 {1999-04},
   volume = 	 94,
-  pages = 	 {168--81},
+  pages = 	 {168--181},
   annotation = 	 {A standard Article entry with a formatted title
                   quoted in the title field.}
 }
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/notes-test.bib b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/notes-test.bib
index 3ce3ba6b6b8..0025e7aa68a 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/notes-test.bib
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/notes-test.bib
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
   journaltitle = {American Psychologist},
   date = 	 {1990-03},
   volume =	 45,
-  pages =	 {336--46},
+  pages =	 {336--346},
   shorttitle =	 {How Social Is the Animal?},
   annote = 	 {Very typical Article entry, but notice the placement
                   of the subtitle in the title field, in order to
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@
   volume =	 99,
   editor =       {Good, Thomas~L.},
   number =	 5,
-  pages =	 {131--46},
+  pages =	 {131--146},
   shorttitle =	 {Fifth-Grade Boys' Decisions},
   annote = 	 {An Article that is part of a special issue of a
                   journal. Title of the issue goes in issuetitle,
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@
   author = 	 {Ellet, Elizabeth~F.~L.},
   title = 	 {By Rail and Stage to Galena},
   crossref =  {prairie:state},
-  pages = 	 {271--79},
+  pages = 	 {271--279},
   annote = 	 {First of three InCollection entries
                   cross-referencing the same Collection.  Since it is
                   cited first in my example file, its long note
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@
     publisher = {Oxford University Press},
     address  = {Oxford},
     year = {2009},
-    pages = {183-207},
+    pages = {183--207},
   annote = 	 {A standard inproceedings entry.}
 }
 
@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@
   journaltitle = {Tijdschrift voor Indische taal-, land- en volkenkunde},
   year = 	 1938,
   volume = 	 78,
-  pages = 	 {271--73},
+  pages = 	 {271--273},
   shorttitle = {Pigafetta},
   annote = 	 {An Article with a Dutch title that may need
                   translating for a significant portion of your
@@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@
   author = 	 {Lippincott, Sarah Clarke},
   title = 	 {Chicago},
   crossref =  {prairie:state},
-  pages = 	 {362--70},
+  pages = 	 {362--370},
   annote = 	 {Third and last of the InCollection entries referring
                   to the same Collection.  The first, long note will
                   have abbreviated data for the collection, because
@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@
   year =	 1994,
   volume =	 60,
   number =	 3,
-  pages =	 {513--32},
+  pages =	 {513--532},
   shorttitle =	 {Antebellum Southern Fathers},
   annote = 	 {Standard Article entry, with a number as well as a
                   volume.}
@@ -2088,7 +2088,7 @@
   subtitle = 	 {Diary of a Battle},
   booktitle = 	 {The Other Side of Time},
   booksubtitle = {A Combat Surgeon in World War II\@},
-  pages = 	 {117--63},
+  pages = 	 {117--163},
   publisher = {Little, Brown},
   year = 	 1987,
   address = 	 {Boston},
@@ -2313,7 +2313,6 @@
 
 @Article{rozner:liberation,
   journaltitle = {Voprosy istorii},
-  entrysubtype = {magazine},
   year = 	 1979,
   author = 	 {Rozner, I.~G.},
   title = 	 {The War of Liberation of the Ukrainian People in
@@ -2322,13 +2321,10 @@
   language = 	 {russian},
   pages = 	 {51--64},
   shorttitle = {War of Liberation},
-  annote = 	 {This is a Russian journal, with its issues defined
-                  not by volume number but by year, hence for the
-                  purposes of biblatex-chicago-df it's an Article with
-                  a "magazine" entrysubtype. The journaltitle is in
-                  transliterated Russian, but the article title is
+  annote = 	 {This is a Russian journal and while its journaltitle
+                  is in transliterated Russian, its title is
                   translated into English, hence the original language
-                  must be provided in the language field.}
+                  provided in the language field.}
 }
 
 @Music{rubinstein:chopin,
@@ -2344,6 +2340,21 @@
                   Cf. floyd:atom.}
 }
 
+@Article{saberhagen:beluga,
+  author = 	 {Saberhagen, Kelvin},
+  title = 	 {Lake Superior Beluga?},
+  journaltitle = {Sturgeon Review},
+  date = 	 1928,
+  issue = 	 {Winter},
+  pages = 	 {21--45},
+  annote = 	 {This is an Article entry with no volume or number,
+                  so the date becomes the indispensable identifying
+                  detail.  When printed, it will look rather like an
+                  Article with "magazine" entrysubtype, but the
+                  package provides this formatting with no manual
+                  intervention from the user.}
+}
+
 @Book{schellinger:novel,
   title = 	 {Encyclopedia of the Novel},
   publisher = 	 {Fitzroy Dearborn},
@@ -2420,7 +2431,7 @@
   journaltitle = {Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society},
   date = 	 {1896-01},
   volume =	 10,
-  pages =	 {412--15},
+  pages =	 {412--415},
   series =	 2,
   annote = 	 {A letter presented as an article in a scholarly
                   journal, hence the Article entry.  You can use the
@@ -2680,7 +2691,7 @@
   date = 	 {2000-11},
   volume = 	 106,
   number = 	 3,
-  pages = 	 {551--78},
+  pages = 	 {551--578},
   url = 	 {http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/journal/issues/v106n3/050125/050125.html},
   annote = 	 {An Article with an online version.}
 }
@@ -2741,7 +2752,7 @@
   journaltitle = {Classical Philology},
   volume = 	 94,
   date = 	 {1999-04},
-  pages = 	 {168--81},
+  pages = 	 {168--181},
   annote = 	 {A standard Article entry with a formatted title
                   quoted in the title field.}
 }