From 953dbb42038c276aea20982b20d60fface9890d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:41:18 +0000 Subject: biblatex-chicago (29sep11) git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@24143 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- .../doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.tex | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-chicago/cms-dates-sample.tex') 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@@ place for it, making sure to include formatting: \label{sec:misc} When citing individual letter-like pieces from an unpublished archive -using \textsf{origdate}, you can set the \texttt{cmsdate=on} option so -that not only will the \textsf{origyear} appear in the citation and at -the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 -- cgit v1.2.3