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IMPORTANT NOTE:
This is the package formerly known as biblatex-chicago-notes-df. It
-has now been upgraded to work with version 2.0 of biblatex, which has
+has now been upgraded to work with version 2.4 of biblatex, which has
recently been released. It contains, for the first time, both the
15th- and 16th-edition Chicago style files. 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 style (version 1.0
+note that Biber is now required for the author-date style (version 1.4
if you are using the latest biblatex, 0.9.8 or 0.9.9 if you are still
using biblatex 1.7).
-README (version 0.9.9a, 2012-07-30):
+README (version 0.9.9b, 2012-12-06):
-Biblatex-chicago contains four biblatex styles implementing the
+Biblatex-chicago contains five biblatex styles implementing the
specifications of the Chicago Manual of Style in both its 15th and
16th editions. The "notes & bibliography" style was formerly
available in the package biblatex-chicago-notes-df, and is intended
@@ -27,13 +27,14 @@ of the Manual has brought the presentation of sources in this style
much more into line with the notes & bibliography specification,
especially regarding the formatting of titles. If you still require
titles to be capitalized sentence style, and article titles, for
-example, not to be enclosed in quotation marks, then you may wish to
-continue using the 15th-edition files until I have provided, in the
-next release, these features as an option to the 16th-edition style.
-Other users should upgrade to the most recent specification. To
-continue using the 15th-edition files, you'll need to specify
-"notes15" or "authordate15" in the options when loading
-biblatex-chicago.
+example, not to be enclosed in quotation marks, then you may now use
+the new, traditional author-date style ("authordate-trad"), which
+provides these features while in all other respects following the
+16th-edition specifications. I encourage all users to upgrade to one
+of these three up-to-date styles, which should now cater to nearly all
+needs. If you with to continue using the 15th-edition files, you'll
+need to specify "notes15" or "authordate15" in the options when
+loading biblatex-chicago.
This is a beta release, but its feature set is already fairly
extensive. If you have used the package before you may, after
@@ -49,10 +50,10 @@ reference guide to both notes & bibliography and author-date styles
demonstrating how to present a wide range of sources, nearly all of
them taken from the Chicago Manual of Style itself, so that you can
compare the output of your system (cms-notes-sample.tex,
-cms-dates-sample.tex, cms15-notes-sample.tex, cms15-dates-sample.tex)
-or my system (cms-notes-sample.pdf, cms-dates-sample.pdf,
-cms15-notes-sample.pdf, cms15-dates-sample.pdf) with the actual
-examples in the Manual.
+cms-dates-sample.tex, cms-trad-sample.tex, cms15-notes-sample.tex,
+cms15-dates-sample.tex) or my system (cms-notes-sample.pdf,
+cms-dates-sample.pdf, cms-trad-sample.pdf, cms15-notes-sample.pdf,
+cms15-dates-sample.pdf) with the actual examples in the Manual.
I have, wherever possible, attempted to maintain backward
compatibility with the standard biblatex styles, but there are a
@@ -80,14 +81,16 @@ in your TeX directory tree instead of in your working directory, I
recommend the following, which should be familiar from the main
biblatex package:
- - The thirteen files biblatex-chicago.sty, chicago-notes.cbx,
+ - The twenty files biblatex-chicago.sty, chicago-notes.cbx,
chicago-notes.bbx, chicago-authordate.cbx, chicago-authordate.bbx,
+ chicago-authordate-trad.cbx, chicago-authordate-trad.bbx,
chicago-notes15.cbx, chicago-notes15.bbx, chicago-authordate15.cbx,
- chicago-authordate15.bbx, cms-american.lbx, cms-french.lbx,
- cms-german.lbx, and cms-ngerman.lbx are located in the latex/
- subdirectory, itself further subdivided into bbx/, cbx/, and lbx/.
- The entire contents of this latex/ directory, including its
- subdirectories, can go in
+ chicago-authordate15.bbx, cms-american.lbx, cms-british.lbx,
+ cms-french.lbx, cms-german.lbx, cms-icelandic.lbx, cms-ngerman.lbx,
+ cms-norsk.lbx, cms-norwegian.lbx, and cms-nynorsk.lbx are located
+ in the latex/ subdirectory, itself further subdivided into bbx/,
+ cbx/, and lbx/. The entire contents of this latex/ directory,
+ including its subdirectories, can go in
<TEXMFLOCAL>/tex/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chicago, where
<TEXMFLOCAL> is the root of your local TeX installation -- for
example, and depending on your system, /usr/share/texmf-local,
@@ -96,14 +99,15 @@ biblatex package:
remember to update your TeX file name database so that TeX can find
them.
- - The fourteen files biblatex-chicago.tex, biblatex-chicago.pdf,
+ - The sixteen files biblatex-chicago.tex, biblatex-chicago.pdf,
biblatex-chicago15.tex, biblatex-chicago15.pdf
- cms-notes-sample.tex, cms-dates-sample.tex, cms-notes-sample.pdf,
- cms-dates.sample.pdf, cms15-notes-sample.tex,
- cms15-dates-sample.tex, cms15-notes-sample.pdf,
- cms15-dates.sample.pdf, notes-test.bib, and dates-test.bib can all
- be found in the doc/ directory in the package archive, the last 10
- in the examples/ subdirectory. You can place all of this in
+ cms-notes-sample.tex, cms-dates-sample.tex, cms-trad-sample.tex,
+ cms-notes-sample.pdf, cms-dates.sample.pdf, cms-trad-sample.pdf,
+ cms15-notes-sample.tex, cms15-dates-sample.tex,
+ cms15-notes-sample.pdf, cms15-dates.sample.pdf, notes-test.bib, and
+ dates-test.bib can all be found in the doc/ directory in the
+ package archive, the last 10 in the examples/ subdirectory. You
+ can place all of this in
<TEXMFLOCAL>/doc/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chicago.