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   1 <h1 id="old-standard">Old Standard</h1>
   2 <h2 id="license">License</h2>
   3 <p>Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<a
   4 href="mailto:amkryukov@gmail.com"
   5 class="email">amkryukov@gmail.com</a>), without Reserved Font Names.</p>
   6 <p>Copyright (c) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Robert Alessi (<a
   7 href="mailto:alessi@robertalessi.net"
   8 class="email">alessi@robertalessi.net</a>), without Reserved Font
   9 Names.</p>
  10 <p>Copyright (c) 2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<a
  11 href="mailto:atsol@aegean.gr" class="email">atsol@aegean.gr</a>),
  12 without Reserved Font Names.</p>
  13 <p>Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
  14 Alessi or Antonis Tsolomitis:</p>
  15 <ul>
  16 <li>email: <a href="mailto:alessi@roberalessi.net"
  17 class="email">alessi@roberalessi.net</a> / <a
  18 href="mailto:atsol@aegean.gr" class="email">atsol@aegean.gr</a></li>
  19 <li>website: <a href="https://sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard/"
  20 class="uri">https://sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard/</a></li>
  21 <li>development: <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard"
  22 class="uri">https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard</a></li>
  23 <li>comments, feature requests, bug reports: <a
  24 href="https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard"
  25 class="uri">https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard</a></li>
  26 </ul>
  27 <p>This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
  28 Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: <a
  29 href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL"
  30 class="uri">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL</a></p>
  31 <h2 id="history">History</h2>
  32 <p>This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov’s beautiful <em>Old
  33 Standard</em>.<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref1"
  34 role="doc-noteref"><sup>1</sup></a> In comparison to the previous
  35 releases of <em>Old Standard</em>, it includes new letters and some
  36 corrections:</p>
  37 <ol type="1">
  38 <li>Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
  39 styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, which
  40 were missing from <em>Old Standard</em>, were already in use a century
  41 ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to <em>Old
  42 Standard</em>. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers, current
  43 headings and in some books proper names.</li>
  44 <li><em>For the time being</em>, a bold italic shape has been
  45 auto-generated. Of course, auto-generating shapes is not a satisfactory
  46 solution. However, it is better than using the font loader to emulate
  47 bold shapes. A real bold italic shape is planned in the versions of
  48 <em>Old Standard</em> to come.</li>
  49 <li>The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (<code>U+01E6</code>,
  50 uppercase) and ǧ (<code>U+01E7</code>, lowercase) has been added. It is
  51 the only character missing from <em>Old Standard</em> that is needed in
  52 some of the accepted standards of romanization of classical Arabic.<a
  53 href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"
  54 role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a></li>
  55 <li>Additionally, this release corrects the <code>+ss06</code> feature
  56 provided by <em>Old Standard</em>. This feature is supposed to
  57 distinguish between regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print
  58 ‘curled’ beta (<code>U+03D0</code>) in medial position. This feature
  59 worked in most cases with the previous release of <em>Old Standard</em>.
  60 However, it failed if the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute
  61 accent taken from the <em>Greek extended</em> Unicode block.</li>
  62 </ol>
  63 <h3 id="why-a-new-release-of-old-standard">Why a new release of <em>Old
  64 Standard</em>?</h3>
  65 <p>At the time of writing, <em>Old Standard</em> was last updated six
  66 years ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while
  67 in need to have new letters included in <em>Old Standard</em> and some
  68 issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release of <em>Old
  69 Standard</em>, while maintaining the hope that the author will one day
  70 resume the development of this typeface.</p>
  71 <h3 id="reference-web-page-archived-on-sept.-26-2019">Reference web page
  72 (archived on Sept. 26, 2019)</h3>
  73 <p><a
  74 href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190926123235/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html</a></p>
  75 <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
  76 <p>Please refer to Alexey Kryukov’s documentation which is can be found
  77 here: <a
  78 href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf"
  79 class="uri">http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf</a>
  80 (CTAN) or here: <a
  81 href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190924110631/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html</a>
  82 (Alexey Kryukov’s web page).</p>
  83 <section id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
  84 role="doc-endnotes">
  85 <hr />
  86 <ol>
  87 <li id="fn1"><p>See <a href="https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand"
  88 class="uri">https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand</a><a href="#fnref1"
  89 class="footnote-back" role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
  90 <li id="fn2"><p>See for references the <a
  91 href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf">current
  92 documentation of the arabluatex package</a>, sect. “Transliteration”.<a
  93 href="#fnref2" class="footnote-back" role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
  94 </ol>
  95 </section>