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-FONTLOG
-Old Standard font family
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-
-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
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-
-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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-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>.
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