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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 c871d9a99fb..197a52f3f9b 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/RELEASE @@ -1,3 +1,67 @@ +Release notes for version 0.9.8 [2011-08-31]: + + - Starting with biblatex version 1.5, in order to adhere to the + author-date specification you will need to use Biber to process + your .bib files, as BibTeX (and its more recent variants) will no + longer provide all the required features. Unfortunately, however, + the current release of Biber (0.9.5) contains bugs that make it + tricky to use with biblatex-chicago. These bugs have been + addressed in 0.9.6 beta, which is available for various operating + systems in the development subdirectory of your SourceForge mirror, + e.g., ... b/project/bi/biblatex-biber/biblatex-biber/development. + (If, by the time you read this, Biber 0.9.6 has already been + released, then so much the better.) Please see the start of + cms-dates-sample.pdf for more details. + + - The switch to Biber for the author-date specification means that + biblatex now provides considerably enhanced handling of the various + date fields. I have attempted to document the relevant changes in + cms-dates-sample.pdf and in the "date" discussion in + biblatex-chicago.pdf, but in my testing the only alterations I've + so far had to make to my .bib files involve adhering more closely + to the instructions for specifying date ranges. Biber doesn't like + {1968/75}, and will ignore it. Either use {1968/1975} or put + {1968--75} in the "year" field. + + - In the notes & bibliography style, and mainly in Article, Letter, + Misc, and Review entries, previous releases of biblatex-chicago + recommended using the \isdot macro when you needed both to define a + field and not have it appear in the printed output. This mechanism + no longer works in biblatex 1.6, and while addressing the problem I + realized that relying on it covered over some inconsistencies and + bugs in my code, so from this release forward you will need to + modify your .bib and .tex files to use other, more standard + mechanisms to achieve the same ends, in particular the + \headlesscite commands and declaring "useauthor=false" in the + "options" field. Please consult the documentation in + biblatex-chicago.pdf section 4.3.1, s.v. "isdot," for a list of + example entries where you can see these changes at work. + + - The 16th-edition files are well under way, but still a work in + progress. + +Other changes in 0.9.8: + + - Fixed the \smartcite citation command in, and added a \smartcites + command to, chicago-notes.cbx, so that the notes & bibliography + style no longer prints parentheses around citations produced using + \autocite(s) commands inside \footnote commands. Many thanks to + Louis-Dominique Dubeau for pointing out this error. + + - Fixed a problem with the \lbx@fromlang command, which biblatex 1.6 + no longer defines. Many thanks to Rembrandt Wolpert and Aaron + Lambert for pointing this out, and to Charles Schaum for posting a + temporary workaround in a newsgroup post. + + - Version 1.6 of biblatex no longer allows you to redefine the + "minnames" and "maxnames" options in the \printbibliography + command, so I've defined "minbibnames" and "maxbibnames" in + biblatex-chicago.sty, instead. These parameters have been + available since version 1.1, so this is now the earliest version of + biblatex that will work with the Chicago styles. Of course, if the + (Chicago-recommended) values of these options don't suit your + needs, you can redefine them in your document preamble. + Release notes for version 0.9.7a [2011-03-17]: - Added the \smartcite citation command to chicago-notes.cbx so that |