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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 cf2189a331a..247d32c5e03 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 @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ 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} 1.0 and \textsf{biblatex} 2.0, which latter two are +to \textsf{Biber} 1.4 and \textsf{biblatex} 2.4, 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\ @@ -87,14 +87,18 @@ This edition implements significant changes to what the specification has, historically, recommended, and there are certain to be users who prefer the older format with titles capitalized sentence-style and not, in the case of most un-book-like entries, enclosed in quotation -marks. You can still use the 15th-edition style files from -\textsf{biblatex-chicago}, which have been updated with improvements -borrowed from the 16th edition, but which shouldn't require any -changes to your current .bib files. (See -\textsf{biblatex-chicago15.pdf and cms15-dates-sample.pdf}.) I shall -also, in a future release, implement a full 16th-edition style with -15th-edition title formatting, as envisaged by the \emph{Manual} -\autocite*[15.45]{chicago:manual}. +marks. For such users, the new \textsf{authordate-trad} style, as +envisaged by the \emph{Manual} \autocite*[15.45]{chicago:manual}, +grafts the traditional Chicago author-date title formatting onto the +current recommendations for the remainder of the reference apparatus. +Please consult \textsf{cms-trad-sample.pdf} to see how this looks in +practice. You can also still use the 15th-edition style files from +\textsf{biblatex-chicago}, which have been updated with some +improvements borrowed from the 16th edition. (See +\textsf{biblatex-chicago15.pdf} and \textsf{cms15-dates-sample.pdf}.) +I would encourage all users, however, to switch to one of the +16th-edition styles as soon as possible, as I am concentrating nearly +all of my development time there. \subsection*{Usage} \label{usage} @@ -124,10 +128,12 @@ automatically resets the tracker at page breaks: \citereset\cmd{citereset}\ \autocite[15.27]{chicago:manual}. If you are going to repeat a source, make sure that the cite command provides -a postnote --- if you don't need to cite a specific page, then it's -better only to use one citation rather than two, as otherwise, in the -current state of the code, you'll get empty parentheses, like so: -\autocite{chicago:manual}. +a postnote --- from this release of \textsf{biblatex-chicago} you'll +no longer get any annoying empty parentheses, but you will get another +standard citation, which may add too much clutter: +\autocite{chicago:manual}. If you don't need to cite a specific page, +then it may be better, or at least more concise, only to use one +citation command rather than two. \subsection*{Other citation commands} \label{sec:other} |