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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE index 5cfa81434ee..b281a16cabd 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE @@ -1,3 +1,171 @@ +Release notes for version 0.9.9d [2013-10-30]: + + - I am marking the 15th-edition styles as "strongly deprecated." I + recommend that you switch to one of the 16th-edition styles as soon + as is practicable. The older styles still work, but in the next + major release I shall mark them as "obsolete," and cease updating + them. + +There are four changes in this release that may, depending on various +factors, require alterations in your documents or .bib files: + + - Following requests by Kenneth L. Pearce and Bertold Schweitzer, I + have modified and extended the mechanism for creating abbreviated + citations when several parts of the same collection are included in + a reference apparatus. To the InCollection, InProceedings, and + Letter entries of previous releases, I have added InBook, Book, + BookInBook, Collection, and Proceedings entries. Only InBook + entries join the former three in having this functionality turned + on by default --- if you don't want this, it will require + intervention either in the preamble or in the "options" field of + individual entries. This intervention will be via the new + "longcrossref" option, which controls the behavior of the four + essay-like entry types and defaults to "false," while the new + "booklongxref" option controls the four book-like types and + defaults to "true." The useful settings for the options differ + slightly between the author-date and the notes & bibliography + specifications, so please see all the details in the docs of the + "crossref" field in sections 4.2 and 5.2 of biblatex-chicago.pdf. + + - On the same subject, in the notes & bibliography style, I should + mention that in the first, full citation of one part of a + collection in a note, the code no longer uses a separate citation + of the parent entry to supply parts of what you see printed. (This + led to numerous inaccuracies.) If your setup uses a side-effect of + the old code to print data that hasn't even been inherited by the + child, you may find that you need to change some "xref" fields to + "crossref" fields to make it work correctly now. This situation + will, I imagine, be very rare, but you can look at white:ross:memo + in notes-test.bib to see an example. + + - In the author-date styles, several users have been frustrated by + the lack of an approved way of setting the "cmsdate" option in the + preambles of their documents, and Kenneth L. Pearce requested that + I attempt to ease the burden on users by looking at this again. + With this release, you can now set "cmsdate" either to "both" or + "on" in the preamble, and it will affect all entries (except Music, + Review, and Video) with multiple dates. You can still change this + setting in the "options" field of individual entries, but what you + won't be able to change there is the new call to \DeclareLabeldate + which puts the "origdate" first in the list of dates when Biber + searches for a "labelyear" to use in citations and in the list of + references. If you have been using the "switchdates" mechanism to + get the "origdate" as the "labeldate," your .bib files may need + some editing in order to use the new preamble options. Please see + the documentation of the "date" field in section 5.2 of + biblatex-chicago.pdf for all the (voluminous) details. + + - Following a request by Rasmus Pank Rouland, I adapted new biblatex + code in the \textcite(s) commands in all styles to make them fit + more elegantly in the flow of text. Upon reconsideration of the + commands in the notes & bibliography style, I slightly modified + them, but _only_ when used inside a foot- or endnote. In this + context, by default, for both \textcite and \textcites, you'll now + get the author's name(s) followed by a headless _short_ citation + (or citations) placed within parentheses. You can use + \renewcommand in the preamble of your document to redefine the new + \foottextcite and \foottextcites commands to change this + formatting. See section 4.3.1 of biblatex-chicago.pdf. + +Other New Features: + + - This release includes support, in all styles, for biblatex's + multi-volume entry types: MVBook, MVCollection, MVProceedings, and + MVReference. + + - If you use Biber, I have added several new inheritance schemes to + all styles to make cross-referenced entries work more smoothly: + InCollection entries can now inherit from MVBook just as they do + from MVCollection entries; Letter entries now inherit from Book, + Collection, MVBook, and MVCollection entries the same way an InBook + or an InCollection entry would; the "namea," "nameb," "sortname," + "sorttitle," and "sortyear" fields, all highly single-entry + specific, are no longer inheritable; and the "date" and "origdate" + fields of any MV* entry will _not_ be inherited by any other entry + type. + + - Following a bug report by Henry D. Hollithron, I've added to + Unpublished entries in all styles the possibility of including an + "editor," "translator," etc. + + - Thanks to bug reports from Denis Maier and Bertold Schweitzer, I + corrected inaccuracies and outright bugs in many entry types in all + Chicago styles that appeared when there was a "booktitle" and not a + "maintitle" or vice versa. This also involved another rewrite of + the code handling the "volume" field and other related fields in + all non-periodical entry types that use them. + + - On the subject of the "volume" field, I added a new preamble and + entry option, "delayvolume," to the notes & bibliography style. In + long notes where this data isn't printed before a "maintitle," this + option allows you to print it _after_ the publication information + rather than _before_ it, as may sometimes help clarify things, + according to the Manual. This applies to the non-periodical entry + types only. + + - On the same subject, in all styles, I have added a new preamble and + entry option, "hidevolumes." This controls whether, in entries + where a "volume" has been printed before a "maintitle," any + "volumes" field present will also be printed, in this case _after_ + the "maintitle." By default, this is set to "true," so that the + "volumes" field won't appear in such circumstances. + + - On the same subject, I have modified, in all styles, the field + format for the "part" field, so that if the field contains + something other than a number, biblatex-chicago will print it as + is, capitalizing it if necessary, rather than supplying the usual + bibstring, thus providing a mechanism for altering the string to + your liking. I have also decoupled the "part" field from the + "volume" field, allowing it to be printed even in the absence of + the latter, thereby providing a means to refer to segments of a + larger work that don't easily fit the established schemes. The + iso:electrodoc entry in dates-test.bib shows an example of how this + might work. + + - There is a new "omitxrefdate" preamble and entry option in the + notes & bibliography style. It turns off the printing of the + child's "date" next to its "title" in abbreviated book-like entries + _only_, in both notes and bibliography. + + - Clea F. Rees requested a way to customize the punctuation when a + volume and a page number appear together like so: "2:204." You can + use \renewcommand in your preamble to redefine the new + \postvolpunct command to achieve this, in all styles. If your + document language is French, cms-french.lbx redefines this already + and prints something like "2 : 204." + + - I extended, in all styles, the functions of the "userd" field, + allowing it to modify a "date" field if it hasn't already been + captured by another date specification in the entry. + + - A bug report from Mathias Legrand helped clear up inaccuracies in + the presentation of ordinal numbers in all styles. + + - For the author-date styles, another bug report by Kenneth Pearce + resulted in the addition of the "labelyear" to the default "cms" + sorting scheme so that more entries in the reference list are + sorted properly without further user intervention. + + - George Pigman found an odd punctuation-tracking bug in the + author-date styles. This has been fixed. + + - Marc Sommer found a bug in the presentation of the "prenote" field + in the author-date styles. This has been fixed. + + - In the notes & bibliography style, I improved the behavior of + abbreviated foot- and endnotes when using the hyperref package. + + - I modified the date-presentation code in all the language files + (cms-*.lbx) provided by the package. Now, if an entry contains a + "(*)year" and an "(*)endyear" that are exactly the same, and there + aren't any further month or day specifications, then the "(*)year" + alone will be printed. This allows for the clearing of spurious + "(*)endyears" inherited from parent entries. + + - I discovered some unpleasant side effects of my arrangement of the + .lbx files devoted to Norwegian, and reverted to the arrangement as + originally provided by Håkon Malmedal. + Release notes for version 0.9.9c [2013-03-15]: - I am marking the 15th-edition styles as "deprecated." I recommend |