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Contents of the README file

Biblatex-chicago-notes-df is a biblatex style whose aim is to
implement the "notes + bibliography" specification of the Chicago
Manual of Style, 15th edition, a specification intended primarily for
writers in the humanities.  Chicago's "author-date" system is not
supported by this package.

This is a beta release, but its feature set is already fairly
extensive.  If you have used the style before, you may want to start
by looking at the "Obsolete and Deprecated" section in the changelog
of biblatex-chicago-notes-df.pdf, which details how this update
will affect parts of your .bib file.  If you are just getting
started, the best way to learn the system is to read the documentation
in that same pdf file, which contains both a Quickstart section and a
complete reference guide.  The package also contains an annotated .bib
file (chicago-test.bib) which offers over 100 entries demonstrating
how to present a wide range of sources, nearly all of them taken from
the Chicago Manual of Style itself, so that you can compare the output
of your system (sample.tex) or my system (sample.pdf) with the actual
examples in the Manual.

I have, wherever possible, attempted to maintain backward
compatibility with the standard biblatex styles, but there are a
significant number of situations where I have been unable to do so,
which means that switching among various styles while using the same
bibliography database will not be as simple and painless as it could
be.  If you can see ways better to preserve this compatibility, or
indeed to improve the package in any way whatsoever, please let me
know, or better yet, send a patch.  If the style doesn't behave as you
expect or if you discover a bug, I'd be very happy to hear about it,
but do please read biblatex-chicago-notes-df.pdf first, as you may
find that your question has already been answered there.  If you do
find a bug, please send me the .bib entry and your LaTeX preamble, so
that I can try to reproduce it here.  My email address is at the head
of biblatex-chicago-notes-df.pdf.

Changelog for version 0.8.2 [2008-11-03]:

 - Fixed several formatting glitches between citations in multicite
   commands and also after some prenotes.

Changelog for version 0.8.1 [2008-10-22]:

 - Updated the .bbx and .cbx files to work with biblatex 0.8.  This
  most recent version of biblatex is now required for
  biblatex-chicago-notes-df to work.

 - The origlocation field is now obsolete, and has been replaced by
  lista.  Please update your .bib files accordingly.

 - The single-letter \bibstring commands I provided in version 0.7 are
  now deprecated.  In most cases, you'll be able to take advantage of
  the automatic contextual capitalization facilities introduced in
  this release, but if you still need the single-letter \bibstring
  functionality then you should switch to \autocap, as I shall be
  removing the single-letter bibstrings in a future release.  See the
  \autocap docs for all the details.

 - The userd field is now deprecated, as biblatex 0.8 allows all forms
  of data to be included in the edition field.  I shall be removing
  userd in a future release, so please update your .bib files as soon
  as is convenient.

 - Added the usera field, which holds supplemental information about a
  journaltitle in article and review entries.  See the documentation
  of the field for details.

 - Other minor fixes and additions.  See the full changelog for more.

Changelog for version 0.7 [2008-08-18]:
 - First public release 

Copyright (c) 2008 David Fussner.  This package is author-maintained.
This work may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the
conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of
this license or (at your option) any later version.  The latest
version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version
2005/12/01 or later.  This software is provided "as is," without
warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not
limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for
a particular purpose.

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