updated README and documentation

[OldStandard] / README.md

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@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
 Alessi:
 
   * email: <alessi@roberalessi.net>
-  * website: <http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t>
-  * development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t>
-  * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard_t/issues>
+  * website: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard/about>
+  * development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard>
+  * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues>
 
 
 This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
@@ -25,32 +25,42 @@ Version 1.1.  This license is available with a FAQ at:
 History
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 This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
-Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, *Old Standard T*
-includes new letters and some corrections:
+Standard*.[^1] In comparison to the previous releases of *Old
+Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections:
 
 1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
    styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals,
-   which are missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
+   which were missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
    century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
    *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
    current headings and in some books proper names.
-2. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
+2. *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 *Old Standard* to come.
+3. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
    ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character
    missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted
    standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2]
-3. Additionally, *Old Standard T* corrects the `+ss06` feature
-   provided by *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish
-   between regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta
-   (`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature works in most cases
-   with *Old Standard*. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a
-   vowel with an acute accent taken from the *Greek extended* Unicode
-   block.
+4. Additionally, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by
+   *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
+   regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta
+   (`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases
+   with the previous release of *Old Standard*. However, it failed if
+   the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the
+   *Greek extended* Unicode block.
 
-### Why *Old Standard T*?
+### Why a new release of *Old Standard*?
 At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
-ago. Nevertheless, the letter `T` stands for *Transient*, which means
-that *Old Standard T*, should only stay as long as what it features is
-not included in *Old Standard*.
+ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in
+need to have new letters included in *Old Standard* and some issues
+addressed, took the decision to make a new release of *Old Standard*,
+while maintaining the hope that the author will one day resume the
+development of this typeface.
+
+### Reference web page
+<http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html>
 
 Documentation
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