From 953dbb42038c276aea20982b20d60fface9890d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:41:18 +0000
Subject: biblatex-chicago (29sep11)

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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 2f3c49172af..e8b20b2f592 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
@@ -168,7 +168,12 @@ the order \textsf{year, eventyear, origyear, urlyear}: e.g.,
 \autocite{evanston:library}, which only has a \textsf{urlyear}.  (You
 can eliminate some of these dates from the running, or change the
 search order, using the \cmd{DeclareLabelYear} command in your
-preamble.  Please cf.\ section~4.5.2 in \textsf{biblatex.pdf} for the
+preamble, but please be aware that I have hard-coded this order into
+the author-date style in order to cope with some tricky corners of the
+specification.  If you reorder these dates, and your references enter
+these tricky corners, the results might be surprising.  Cf.\
+section~4.5.2 in \textsf{biblatex.pdf} and section~5.2,
+s.v.\ \enquote{date} in \textsf{biblatex-chicago.pdf} for the
 details.)  In most entry types, the absence of all four possible dates
 will automatically produce \enquote{\texttt{n.d.}\hspace{-2pt}}
 instead: \autocite{bernstein:shostakovich}.  You can also give it
@@ -234,13 +239,11 @@ place for it, making sure to include formatting:
 \label{sec:misc}
 
 When citing individual letter-like pieces from an unpublished archive
-using \textsf{origdate}, you can set the \texttt{cmsdate=on} option so
-that not only will the \textsf{origyear} appear in the citation and at
-the head of the entry in the list of references --- something
-\textsf{Biber} now does by default --- but that year also won't
-reappear in the body of the reference list entry:
+where only an \textsf{origdate} is present, you no longer need to set
+the \texttt{cmsdate} option in your .bib entry, as \textsf{Biber} and
+\textsf{biblatex-chicago} now handle this automatically:
 \autocite{creel:house}.  Non-letters, e.g., interviews, use the
-\textsf{date} field, so you don't need \texttt{cmsdate};
+\textsf{date} field, so you don't need \texttt{cmsdate} there, either:
 \autocite{spock:interview}.  For undated pieces you can put
 \cmd{bibstring\{nodate\}} in the \textsf{year} field:
 \autocite{dinkel:agassiz}.  For citing whole collections, see the next
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