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   1 Old Standard
   2 ============
   3
   4 License
   5 -------
   6 ### Old Standard
   7 Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>),
   8 without Reserved Font Names.
   9
  10 Copyright (c) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Robert Alessi
  11 (<alessi@robertalessi.net>), without Reserved Font Names.
  12
  13 Copyright (c) 2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<atsol@aegean.gr>), without
  14 Reserved Font Names.
  15
  16 This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
  17 Version 1.1.  This license is available with a FAQ at:
  18 <http://scripts.sil.org/OFL>
  19
  20 ### Old Standard Math
  21 Copyright (c) 2019-2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<atsol@aegean.gr>).
  22 This work is released under the GUST Font License -- see
  23 <http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt> for details.
  24
  25 Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
  26 Alessi or Antonis Tsolomitis:
  27
  28   * email: <alessi@roberalessi.net> / <atsol@aegean.gr>
  29   * website: <https://sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard/>
  30   * development: <https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard>
  31   * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard>
  32
  33
  34 History
  35 -------
  36 This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
  37 Standard*.[^1] In comparison to the previous releases of *Old
  38 Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections:
  39
  40 1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
  41    styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals,
  42    which were missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
  43    century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
  44    *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
  45    current headings and in some books proper names.
  46 2. A bold italic shape was first auto-generated in 2019. Of course,
  47    auto-generating shapes was not a satisfactory solution. Since then,
  48    the characters have been reworked manually.
  49 3. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
  50    ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character
  51    missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted
  52    standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2]
  53 4. Additionally, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by
  54    *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
  55    regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta
  56    (`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases
  57    with the previous release of *Old Standard*. However, it failed if
  58    the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the
  59    *Greek extended* Unicode block.
  60 5. Open theta has been replaced with closed theta in slot 03B8 and
  61   rules ss05 and ss06 have been adjusted accordingly.
  62 6. **Oldstyle numerals**: These have been designed by Antonis
  63   Tsolomitis for regular and bold series and can be selected by
  64   `RawFeature=onum`.
  65 7. **Math Font**: This is a major and long-awaited enhancement
  66   to Old Standard. The math font has been designed by Antonis
  67   Tsolomitis from an old French book published by Gauthier-Villars
  68   that used a font similar to Old Standard for Greek and a Bodoni font
  69   for Latin. As both Bodoni and Old Standard were “romantic”
  70   faces, it is hoped that they match up nicely, even if this remains
  71   to be proven...<br/>
  72   Two integrals are provided: a romantic one, which is selected by
  73   default, and an upright version, which can be selected with
  74   `StylisticSet=2`.
  75
  76 ### Why a new release of *Old Standard*?
  77 At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
  78 ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in
  79 need to have new letters included in *Old Standard* and some issues
  80 addressed, took the decision to make a new release of *Old Standard*,
  81 while maintaining the hope that the author will one day resume the
  82 development of this typeface.
  83
  84 ### Reference web page (archived on Sept. 26, 2019)
  85 [http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20190926123235/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html)
  86
  87 Documentation
  88 -------------
  89 Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found
  90 here:
  91 <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
  92 (CTAN) or here:
  93 [http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20190924110631/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html) (Alexey
  94 Kryukov's web page).
  95
  96 [^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand>
  97
  98 [^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex
  99      package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf),
 100      sect. “Transliteration”.