moved up the section about documentation in oldstandard.tex

[OldStandard] / oldstandard.tex

diff --git a/oldstandard.tex b/oldstandard.tex
index 8c5fe14e69602e02a49bd92b61fdb02377dd05c4..58db9c5c029ee3e93710506cc97dedb2d37039f5 100644 (file)
--- a/oldstandard.tex
+++ b/oldstandard.tex
@@ -31,18 +31,8 @@
 \usepackage[greek.ancient,english]{babel}
 \babeltags{grc = greek}
 
-\babelfont{rm}[Path = otf/,
-ItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
-BoldFont={OldStandard-Bold.otf},
-BoldItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
-BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
-
-\babelfont[greek]{rm}[Path = otf/,
-RawFeature={+ss05;+ss06},
-ItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
-BoldFont={OldStandard-Bold.otf},
-BoldItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
-BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
+\babelfont{rm}{Old Standard}
+\babelfont[greek]{rm}[RawFeature={+ss05;+ss06}]{Old Standard}
 
 \babelfont{tt}{CMU Typewriter Text}
 
@@ -61,7 +51,7 @@ BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
 \usepackage{hyperref}
 \hypersetup{unicode=true, linktocpage=true, colorlinks,
   allcolors=cinnamon, pdfauthor={Robert Alessi}, pdftitle={Old
-    Standard T}}
+    Standard}}
 \usepackage{uri}
 
 \usepackage{enumitem}
@@ -93,7 +83,7 @@ BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
 
 \usepackage[toc]{multitoc}
 
-\edef\pkgver{2.4}
+\edef\pkgver{2.4a}
 \edef\pkgdate{2019/07/25}
 \title{\mdseries\tcbox[colframe=black, enhanced, tikznode, drop
   lifted shadow, colback=white, boxrule=.25mm]%
@@ -134,7 +124,7 @@ Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
 Alessi:
 \begin{itemize}
 \item email: \mailto[oldstandard package]{alessi@roberalessi.net}
-\item website: \url{http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard}
+\item website: \url{http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard/about}
 \item development: \url{http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard}
 \item comments, feature requests, bug reports:
 \url{https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues}
@@ -144,6 +134,12 @@ This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
 Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at:
 \url{http://scripts.sil.org/OFL}
 
+\section{Documentation}
+\label{sec:documentation}
+No documentation is associated with this release of \emph{Old
+  Standard} as every item of the original extensive documentation
+applies. The reader should refer to it.\icite{oldstandard}
+
 \section{History}
 \label{sec:history}
 \emph{Old Standard} is a remarkable creation of Alexey Kryukov,
@@ -173,12 +169,6 @@ The writer is very far from being able to design glyphs \emph{ex
 FontForge, and, as a classicist, he is able to scrutinize how features
 operate and if they operate as expected.
 
-\section{Documentation}
-\label{sec:documentation}
-No documentation is associated with this release of \emph{Old
-  Standard} as every item of the original extensive documentation
-applies. The reader should refer to it.\icite{oldstandard}
-
 \section{Additions and corrections provided}
 \label{sec:addit-corr-prov}
 This release of \emph{Old Standard} includes new letters and some
@@ -190,6 +180,11 @@ corrections:
   in use a century ago in fine books which used font faces very
   similar to \emph{Old Standard}. Typical use cases of small capitals
   were headers, current headings and in some books proper names.
+\item \emph{For the time being}, 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 \emph{Old Standard} to come.
 \item The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (\verb|U+01E6|,
   uppercase) and ǧ (\verb|U+01E7|, lowercase) has been added. It is
   the only character missing from \emph{Old Standard} that is needed
@@ -328,28 +323,6 @@ example that follows:---
   \end{grc}
 \end{tcblisting}
 
-\subsection{Bold Italic shape}
-\label{sec:bold-italic-shape}
-\emph{Old Standard} does not feature a bold italic shape. However,
-both \XeTeX\ and \LuaTeX\ engines can emulate this shape as shown in
-the following two examples:
-
-\begin{tcblisting}{minted options={linenos, numbersep=0mm,
-      fontsize=\smaller}, listing only, title=\XeLaTeX}
-  \usepackage{fontspec}
-  \setmainfont{Old Standard}[
-    BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
-    BoldItalicFeatures={FakeBold=1.5}]  
-\end{tcblisting}
-
-\begin{tcblisting}{minted options={linenos, numbersep=0mm,
-      fontsize=\smaller}, listing only, title=\LuaLaTeX}
-  \usepackage{fontspec}
-  \setmainfont{Old Standard}[
-    BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
-    BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]
-\end{tcblisting}
-
 \subsection{Using \emph{Old Standard} in multilingual
   documents}
 \label{sec:using-old-standard}