1 <h1 id=
"old-standard">Old Standard
</h1>
2 <h2 id=
"license">License
</h2>
3 <p>Copyright (c)
2006-
2011 Alexey Kryukov (
<a href=
"mailto:amkryukov@gmail.com">amkryukov@gmail.com
</a>), without Reserved Font Names.
</p>
4 <p>Copyright (c)
2019-
2020, Robert Alessi (
<a href=
"mailto:alessi@robertalessi.net">alessi@robertalessi.net
</a>), without Reserved Font Names.
</p>
5 <p>Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert Alessi:
</p>
7 <li>email:
<a href=
"mailto:alessi@roberalessi.net">alessi@roberalessi.net
</a></li>
8 <li>website:
<a href=
"http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard/about" class=
"uri">http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard/about
</a></li>
9 <li>development:
<a href=
"http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard" class=
"uri">http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard
</a></li>
10 <li>comments, feature requests, bug reports:
<a href=
"https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues" class=
"uri">https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues
</a></li>
12 <p>This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version
1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at:
<a href=
"http://scripts.sil.org/OFL" class=
"uri">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
</a></p>
13 <h2 id=
"history">History
</h2>
14 <p>This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov’s beautiful
<em>Old Standard
</em>.
<a href=
"#fn1" class=
"footnote-ref" id=
"fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> In comparison to the previous releases of
<em>Old Standard
</em>, it includes new letters and some corrections:
</p>
16 <li>Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, which were missing from
<em>Old Standard
</em>, were already in use a century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
<em>Old Standard
</em>. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers, current headings and in some books proper names.
</li>
17 <li><em>For the time being
</em>, a bold italic shape has been auto-generated. Of course, auto-generating shapes is not a satisfactory solution. However, it is better than using the font loader to emulate bold shapes. A real bold italic shape is planned in the versions of
<em>Old Standard
</em> to come.
</li>
18 <li>The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (
<code>U+
01E6
</code>, uppercase) and ǧ (
<code>U+
01E7
</code>, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character missing from
<em>Old Standard
</em> that is needed in some of the accepted standards of romanization of classical Arabic.
<a href=
"#fn2" class=
"footnote-ref" id=
"fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a></li>
19 <li>Additionally, this release corrects the
<code>+ss06
</code> feature provided by
<em>Old Standard
</em>. This feature is supposed to distinguish between regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta (
<code>U+
03D0
</code>) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases with the previous release of
<em>Old Standard
</em>. However, it failed if the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the
<em>Greek extended
</em> Unicode block.
</li>
21 <h3 id=
"why-a-new-release-of-old-standard">Why a new release of
<em>Old Standard
</em>?
</h3>
22 <p>At the time of writing,
<em>Old Standard
</em> was last updated six years ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in need to have new letters included in
<em>Old Standard
</em> and some issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release of
<em>Old Standard
</em>, while maintaining the hope that the author will one day resume the development of this typeface.
</p>
23 <h3 id=
"reference-web-page-archived-on-sept.26-2019">Reference web page (archived on Sept.
26,
2019)
</h3>
24 <p><a href=
"https://web.archive.org/web/20190926123235/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html
</a></p>
25 <h2 id=
"documentation">Documentation
</h2>
26 <p>Please refer to Alexey Kryukov’s documentation which is can be found here:
<a href=
"http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf" class=
"uri">http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf
</a> (CTAN) or here:
<a href=
"https://web.archive.org/web/20190924110631/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html
</a> (Alexey Kryukov’s web page).
</p>
27 <section class=
"footnotes">
30 <li id=
"fn1"><p>See
<a href=
"https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand" class=
"uri">https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand
</a><a href=
"#fnref1" class=
"footnote-back">↩
</a></p></li>
31 <li id=
"fn2"><p>See for references the
<a href=
"http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf">current documentation of the arabluatex package
</a>, sect. “Transliteration”.
<a href=
"#fnref2" class=
"footnote-back">↩
</a></p></li>
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