License
-------
+### Old Standard
Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>),
without Reserved Font Names.
-Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (<alessi@robertalessi.net>),
-without Reserved Font Names.
-
-Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
-Alessi:
-
- * email: <alessi@roberalessi.net>
- * website: <http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard>
- * development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard>
- * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues>
+Copyright (c) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Robert Alessi
+(<alessi@robertalessi.net>), without Reserved Font Names.
+Copyright (c) 2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<atsol@aegean.gr>), without
+Reserved Font Names.
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at:
<http://scripts.sil.org/OFL>
+### Old Standard Math
+Copyright (c) 2019-2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<atsol@aegean.gr>).
+This work is released under the GUST Font License -- see
+<http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt> for details.
+
+Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
+Alessi or Antonis Tsolomitis:
+
+ * email: <alessi@roberalessi.net> / <atsol@aegean.gr>
+ * website: <https://sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard/>
+ * development: <https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard>
+ * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard>
+
+
History
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This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
-Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, it 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. A bold italic shape was first auto-generated in 2019. Of course,
+ auto-generating shapes was not a satisfactory solution. Since then,
+ the characters have been reworked manually.
+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
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.
+5. Open theta has been replaced with closed theta in slot 03B8 and
+ rules ss05 and ss06 have been adjusted accordingly.
+6. **Oldstyle numerals**: These have been designed by Antonis
+ Tsolomitis for regular and bold series and can be selected by
+ `RawFeature=onum`.
+7. **Math Font**: This is a major and long-awaited enhancement
+ to Old Standard. The math font has been designed by Antonis
+ Tsolomitis from an old French book published by Gauthier-Villars
+ that used a font similar to Old Standard for Greek and a Bodoni font
+ for Latin. As both Bodoni and Old Standard were “romantic”
+ faces, it is hoped that they match up nicely, even if this remains
+ to be proven...<br/>
+ Two integrals are provided: a romantic one, which is selected by
+ default, and an upright version, which can be selected with
+ `StylisticSet=2`.
### Why a new release of *Old Standard*?
At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in
-need to have new letters included in \emph{Old Standard} and some
-issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release \emph{Old
-Standard}.
+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 (archived on Sept. 26, 2019)
+[http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20190926123235/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html)
Documentation
-------------
Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found
-here: <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
+here:
+<http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
+(CTAN) or here:
+[http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20190924110631/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html) (Alexey
+Kryukov's web page).
[^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand>
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