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, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by
+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