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   1 Old Standard
   2 ============
   3
   4 License
   5 -------
   6 Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>),
   7 without Reserved Font Names.
   8
   9 Copyright (c) 2019-2020, Robert Alessi (<alessi@robertalessi.net>),
  10 without Reserved Font Names.
  11
  12 Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
  13 Alessi:
  14
  15   * email: <alessi@roberalessi.net>
  16   * website: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard/about>
  17   * development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard>
  18   * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues>
  19
  20
  21 This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
  22 Version 1.1.  This license is available with a FAQ at:
  23 <http://scripts.sil.org/OFL>
  24
  25 History
  26 -------
  27 This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
  28 Standard*.[^1] In comparison to the previous releases of *Old
  29 Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections:
  30
  31 1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
  32    styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals,
  33    which were missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
  34    century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
  35    *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
  36    current headings and in some books proper names.
  37 2. *For the time being*, a bold italic shape has been
  38    auto-generated. Of course, auto-generating shapes is not a
  39    satisfactory solution. However, it is better than using the font
  40    loader to emulate bold shapes. A real bold italic shape is planned
  41    in the versions of *Old Standard* to come.
  42 3. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
  43    ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character
  44    missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted
  45    standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2]
  46 4. Additionally, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by
  47    *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
  48    regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta
  49    (`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases
  50    with the previous release of *Old Standard*. However, it failed if
  51    the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the
  52    *Greek extended* Unicode block.
  53
  54 ### Why a new release of *Old Standard*?
  55 At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
  56 ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in
  57 need to have new letters included in *Old Standard* and some issues
  58 addressed, took the decision to make a new release of *Old Standard*,
  59 while maintaining the hope that the author will one day resume the
  60 development of this typeface.
  61
  62 ### Reference web page (archived on Sept. 26, 2019)
  63 [http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20190926123235/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html)
  64
  65 Documentation
  66 -------------
  67 Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found
  68 here:
  69 <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
  70 (CTAN) or here:
  71 <http://thessalonica.org.ru/downloads/oldstand-manual.pdf> (Alexey
  72 Kryukov's web page).
  73
  74 [^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand>
  75
  76 [^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex
  77      package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf),
  78      sect. “Transliteration”.