-FONTLOG
-Old Standard font family
-========================
-
-This file provides detailed information on the Old Standard family of
-fonts. This information should be distributed along with the Old Standard
-fonts and any derivative works.
-
-Basic Font Information
-----------------------
-
-The Old Standard font family is an attempt to revive a specific type of
-Modern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various
-editions printed in the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost
-completely abandoned later. Although contemporary typographers often
-consider this lettertype obsolete and out-of-fashion, it still has at least
-two advantages:
-
--- The classicist style still can be considered a good choice for
-typesetting scientific papers, especially on social and humanitarian
-sciences, as its specific features are closely associated in the people's
-eyes with old books they learned on;
-
--- the most beautiful examples of Greek and Cyrillic lettertypes were all
-based on the Modern style, so that for those scripts "Modern" fonts
-are much more appropriate than any contemporary (e. g. Times-based)
-designs.
-
-That's why the Old Standard font family has two main purposes: it is
-intended to be used as a specialized font for philologists (mainly
-classicists, germanists and slavists) and also as a general-purpose font
-for typesetting various editions in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic
-script. For this reason Old Standard provides glyphs for a wide range of
-Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters.
-
-The name "Old Standard" was selected as opposed to the "Obyknovennaya
-Novaya" ("New Standard") typeface, widely used in the Soviet typography,
-which represents another, slightly different type of the same Modern style.
-The digital version of this font is now available from Paratype
-(http://www.paratype.ru). Of course this name doesn't look very original,
-but it seems to be a good choice for a revival of the most common
-lettertype of the early 20th century.
-
-ChangeLog
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-
-2020 December 18 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.6
-
- * Added 2nd pointer to Alexey Kryukov's archived webpage.
-
- * Added and updated FONTLOG.txt (this file).
-
- * New file: OldStandard.fontspec. Slanted shapes for regular and bold are
- now available through the 'FakeSlant' feature of fontspec.
-
- * Updated naming schemes in BoldItalic. Thanks to Jontxo Reig for
- testing.
-
-2020 February 24 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.5
-
- * Updated documentation and makefile.
-
- * Better g caron.
-
- * Added missing small capitals Ā, Ī and Ū.
-
- * Added font table.
-
- * Reset all hinting information and instructions.
-
- * Removed duplicate c2sc and smcp rules.
-
- * Added small capitals for all Greek accented letters.
-
-2019 July 26 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.4a
-
- * Reshaped macron, acute, grave and j in BoldItalic.
-
-2019 July 25 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.4
-
- * Added auto-generated BoldItalic.
-
-2019 July 24 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.3 (1.0 in the current git repo)
-
- * Fixed missing direction in U+2023.
-
- * fixed missing control points, wrong coordinates and directions
- in OldStandardT-Italic.sfd.
-
- * Added g caron.
-
- * Added small capitals in Regular (French, German, Italian,
- Spanish, Basic Russian and Arabic DMG).
-
- * Make +ss06 work if beta is preceded by a vowel with an accute
- accent taken from the Greek Extended Unicode block.
-
-2011 April 30 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.2
-
- * Latin Extended Additional (again, except Vietnamese and
- medievalist additions) for Bold and Italic.
-
- * More punctuation characters, including New Testament critical
- signs.
-
- * New implementation for the 'frac' feature: it is now possible to
- build any arbitrary fractions rather than just those available
- in Unicode in the precomposed form.
-
- * SIL's Graphite rendering technologie is now supported. The
- features available are mostly the same as for OpenType, but
- there are some additions (in particular it is possible to render
- a Greek text with accents above capitals). The manual has also
- been changed to reflect the new functionality.
-
- * Cosmetic glyph changes (foots/arms in Cyrillic 'Ka', 'Zhe', 'Ya'
- in particular).
-
- * Added human-readable stylistic set names (US English only) and
- style (sub-family) names in a few additional languages.
-
- * The fonts are now available also in the WOFF format to simplify
- embedding into web pages.
-
-2009 November 18 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.1 (not released)
-
- * The "Greek and Coptic" Unicode range is now fully covered,
- except Coptic letters. The epigraphic letters have been
- implemented in a simple sans-serif style: I don't like
- "creativity" if it can result in producing urecognizable glyphs.
-
- * Regular and bold: New alternate glyphs for Cyrillic IE
- (U+0415/U+0435) and Ukrainian IE (U+0404/U+0454), used by
- default for Church Slavonic. The intent is to make Old Cyrillic
- YEST clearly distinguishable both from Latin E and "wide" YEST.
-
- * New glyphs for CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER MONOGRAPH UK (in all 3
- styles).
-
- * I have implemented a k-shaped kappa in all three styles, a
- script rho in regular and bold and a rho with straignt tail in
- italic. These characters (except the script rho) are kept
- unencoded and can be accessed via the 'mgrk' feature tag. I
- don't think they would be very useful, but at least it is now
- possible to use Old Standard for typesetting a copy of the
- Unicode Greek codechart (I needed one for a book I was
- preparing).
-
- * Multiple cosmetic glyph changes. In particular Latin capital
- "C", "E", "F", "G", "L" and related glyphs have got heavier
- vertical serifs in the regular font. Cedilla is redesigned
- (once again) in regular and bold. Shapes of some Greek letters
- (including alternate beta and theta) have also been improved.
-
- * I no longer use custom PUA mappings. I have preserved PUA
- codepoints for a few standard glyphs (including capital accents)
- previously mapped there by Adobe, as well as for additional
- accented Greek characters implemented for compatibility with
- Ralph Hancock's fonts. Everything else has been moved outside
- the encoding.
-
- * Oops. I was wrong regarding "zhe with breve": this letter
- actually should be formed with a standard (Latin) breve rather
- than a Cyrillic telephone receiver-like accent. BTW I think rhis
- letter should be available in the font: since I already support
- historical Romanian characters, the modern Moldavian Cyrillic
- alphabet should be supported as well.
-
- * The regular font now includes most accented characters from the
- Latin Extended Additional range (but not Vietnamese).
-
-2008 November 18 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.0
-
- * A bold version is now available!
-
- * Added a full set of historical Cyrillic characters, as defined
- in Unicode 5.1;
-
- * Implemented Roman numerals and ancient Roman epigraphic letters
- (including Claudian letters).
-
- * Switched to lookup-based representation of the OpenType data in
- the source files to conform the new FontForge's file format;
-
- * Now both cubic and quadratic versions of the font outlines are
- stored in the same source files (one file for each style), as
- FontForge's new approach to multilayered fonts allows this;
-
- * Switched to OFL version 1.1;
-
- * FontForge now can generate reasonably good TTF instructions (it
- could not when OldStandard v. 1.0 was released). So the TTF
- fonts are now automatically instructed with FontForge. I still
- include the old instructions for the regular version (prepared
- with Peter Baker's xgridfit utility) into the source package,
- but they are no longer used in the font itself. This certainly
- makes some glyphs look worse, but improves the overall
- performance of the font (especially in the antialiased mode);
-
- * Danish Aringacute redesigned (now has the acute at the top of
- the ring and a specially designed, reduced in size, diacritic
- for the capital glyph);
-
- * Redesigned cedilla and all combinations with this accent in the
- upright font;
-
- * More contour cleanup;
-
- * Added accented combinations with "W" for Welsh;
-
- * Added several new math characters to the regular font. The
- intent was to fully cover the TeX OMS encoding, but this task is
- still far from being reached;
-
- * There is now a dedicated Unicode codepoint for capital insular
- "G" (U+A77D), so move the corresponding glyph to that location;
-
- * Corrected the shape of Greek symbol phi (U+03D5). It is still
- not recommended to use this glyph instead of the normal (looped)
- form;
-
- * Several new characters have been added, including the Latin
- letter EZH (U+01B7/U+0292) and capital Es Zett for German
- (U+1E9E). There are some new combining marks as well;
-
- * I used to consider the breve accent should always take the
- typically Cyrillic form when used after Cyrillic
- letters. However this assumption seems to be wrong: the specific
- form of the diacritic is actually an attribute of just three
- letters, i. e. "short i" (Russian etc.), "Short u"
- (Byelorussian) and "zhe with breve" (Moldavian).
-
-2007 July 14 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.1 (not released)
-
- * Added Latin letters OPEN E and OPEN O, requested by an African
- user;
-
- * New glyph for ampersand in the upright font;
-
- * Redesigned Polish ogonek and Czech comma-like caron;
-
- * More work on italic Greek letters;
-
- * General contour cleanup for some glyphs.
-
-2007 January 22 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.0
-
- * Added the WHITE SQUARE (U+25A1) character;
-
- * Minor corrections in the fonts themselves and in the PDF manual.
-
-2006 December 12 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.9
-
- * Added a few more Latin Extended-B characters, yogh and wynn in
- particular (thanks to Peter Baker for the valuable information
- on the design of the letter yogh he provided). I also have
- implemented uppercase and lowercase versions of the insular
- "g". Thus Old Standard is now suitable for typesetting texts in
- Old and Middle English.
-
- * Added Hebrew aleph and a few Fraktur characters, useful for
- critical apparatus, especially in Bible/New Testament editions.
-
- * Implemented a full set of standard f-ligatures, present in most
- OpenType fonts.
-
- * Andrew Panov has convinced me to implement a set of mathematical
- glyphs, designed in the style of traditional Russian math
- typesetting. These glyphs are currently available only in the
- regular version of the font.
-
- * A PDF manual, explaining various features of the font, is now
- available.
-
- * Greek sampi (both uppercase and lowercase) has been redesigned.
-
- * Implemented Greek lunate epsilon and reversed lunate epsilon
- (the design doesn't match the remaining Greek letters
- though). Thus all Unicode slots intended for "alternate" and
- mathematical Greek glyphs are now covered.
-
- * A few improvements in the TTF instructions for the regular font
- (drop-out control has been enabled).
-
- * Several minor corrections in the OpenType layouts.
-
-2006 October 01 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.8
-
- * Implemented a set of TrueType instructions (hints) for the
- regular font (italics are still unhinted). I would like to thank
- Peter Baker for his excellent (and extremely well documented)
- xgridfit program (http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net), which
- provides a good Open Source solution for gridfitting, or
- "hinting," TrueType fonts.
-
- * The TrueType version of the regular font now has a separate
- source file (OldStandard.ttf.sfd) with quadratic splines.
-
- * Changed the naming convention for the TrueType version: the font
- name now has a "TT" suffix, so that both TTF and OTF versions
- can be installed on the same system simultaneously.
-
- * Added a few Latin Extended-B characters, useful mainly for
- germanists, in particular "b" with bar, "o" with ogonek and
- hwair. Also I have corrected shapes of lowercase eth and
- thorn. Thus Old Standard now includes all characters necessary
- for representing Old Icelandic texts and Gothic
- transliteration. Still more characters (the most important of
- them being uppercase and lowercase yogh) are needed for a proper
- support of Old/Middle English.
-
- * As usual, a few minor bugs have been corrected.
-
-2006 June 09 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.7
-
- * Added OpenType layouts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Special
- attention has been paid to correct shaping and positioning of
- diacritical marks.
-
- * Minor corrections of glyph shapes.
-
-2006 May 08 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.6
-
- * License changed to the SIL Open Font License.
-
- * Added Greek glyphs, including those in the U+1F00--U+1FFF "Greek
- Extended" Unicode range.
-
- * Ukrainian and Serbian Cyrillic glyphs were redesigned in order
- to bring them into a better correspondance with real examples of
- the early 20th century printing.
-
- * The standard mathematical operation signs were redesigned and
- significantly enlarged, so that now their implementation
- contradicts to the contemporary standards, but better
- corresponds to the European tradition of math typesetting.
-
- * Several additional math characters, needed to provide a full
- coverage for the Mac Roman encoding, have been added.
-
- * Ancient Greek metrical characters (U+23D1--U+23D9) have been
- implemented.
-
- * A TTF version is released in addition to OpenType-CFF fonts. It
- has no hinting at all, so don't complain for bad screen
- rendering!
-
-2006 Feb 14 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.2
-
- * First public release.
-
-Acknowledgements
-----------------
-(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications
-be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description
-(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)
-
-N: Alexey Kryukov
-E: alexios@thessalonica.org.ru
-W: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru
-D: Original Designer of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs
-
-For more information please visit the Fonts page on Thessalonica's
-website: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html.
-
-Or send an email to <alexios at thessalonica dot org dot ru>.
-
-N: Robert Alessi
-E: alessi@robertalessi.net
-W: http://www.robertalessi.net
-D: Current maintainer of Old Standard
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