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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, 2021, 2022, 2023 Robert Alessi
  10 (<alessi@robertalessi.net>), without Reserved Font Names.
  11
  12 Copyright (c) 2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<atsol@aegean.gr>), without
  13 Reserved Font Names.
  14
  15 Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
  16 Alessi or Antonis Tsolomitis:
  17
  18   * email: <alessi@roberalessi.net> / <atsol@aegean.gr>
  19   * website: <https://sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard/>
  20   * development: <https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard>
  21   * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard>
  22
  23
  24 This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
  25 Version 1.1.  This license is available with a FAQ at:
  26 <http://scripts.sil.org/OFL>
  27
  28 History
  29 -------
  30 This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
  31 Standard*.[^1] In comparison to the previous releases of *Old
  32 Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections:
  33
  34 1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
  35    styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals,
  36    which were missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
  37    century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
  38    *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
  39    current headings and in some books proper names.
  40 2. *For the time being*, a bold italic shape has been
  41    auto-generated. Of course, auto-generating shapes is not a
  42    satisfactory solution. However, it is better than using the font
  43    loader to emulate bold shapes. A real bold italic shape is planned
  44    in the versions of *Old Standard* to come.
  45 3. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
  46    ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character
  47    missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted
  48    standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2]
  49 4. Additionally, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by
  50    *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
  51    regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta
  52    (`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases
  53    with the previous release of *Old Standard*. However, it failed if
  54    the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the
  55    *Greek extended* Unicode block.
  56
  57 ### Why a new release of *Old Standard*?
  58 At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
  59 ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in
  60 need to have new letters included in *Old Standard* and some issues
  61 addressed, took the decision to make a new release of *Old Standard*,
  62 while maintaining the hope that the author will one day resume the
  63 development of this typeface.
  64
  65 ### Reference web page (archived on Sept. 26, 2019)
  66 [http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20190926123235/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html)
  67
  68 Documentation
  69 -------------
  70 Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found
  71 here:
  72 <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
  73 (CTAN) or here:
  74 [http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20190924110631/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html) (Alexey
  75 Kryukov's web page).
  76
  77 [^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand>
  78
  79 [^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex
  80      package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf),
  81      sect. “Transliteration”.