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   1 Old Standard T
   2 ==============
   3
   4 License
   5 -------
   6 Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>),
   7 without Reserved Font Names.
   8
   9 Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (<alessi@robertalessi.net>),
  10 without Reserved Font Names.
  11
  12 This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
  13 Version 1.1.  This license is available with a FAQ at:
  14 <http://scripts.sil.org/OFL>
  15
  16 History
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  18 This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
  19 Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, *Old Standard T*
  20 includes new letters and some corrections:
  21
  22 1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
  23    styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals,
  24    which are missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
  25    century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
  26    *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
  27    current headings and in some books proper names.
  28 2. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
  29    ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character
  30    missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted
  31    standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2]
  32 3. Additionaly, *Old Standard T* corrects the `+ss06` feature provided
  33    by *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
  34    regular and ‘curly’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curly’ beta (`U+03D0`)
  35    in medial position. This feature works in most cases with *Old
  36    Standard*. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a vowel
  37    with an acute accent taken from the *Greek extended* Unicode block.
  38
  39 ### Why *Old Standard T*?
  40 At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
  41 ago. Nevertheless, the letter `T` stands for *Transient*, which means
  42 that *Old Standard T*, should only stay as long as what it features is
  43 not included in *Old Standard*.
  44
  45 Documentation
  46 -------------
  47 Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found
  48 here: <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
  49
  50 [^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand>
  51
  52 [^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex
  53      package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf),
  54      sect. ``Transliteration''.