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 \usepackage[greek.ancient,english]{babel}
 \babeltags{grc = greek}
 
-% \babelfont{rm}[Path = otf/,
-% ItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
-% BoldFont={OldStandard-Bold.otf},
-% BoldItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
-% BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
-
-% \babelfont[greek]{rm}[Path = otf/,
-% RawFeature={+ss05;+ss06},
-% ItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
-% BoldFont={OldStandard-Bold.otf},
-% BoldItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
-% BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
-
 \babelfont{rm}[Path = otf/,
 ItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
 BoldFont={OldStandard-Bold.otf},
@@ -201,6 +188,11 @@ corrections:
   in use a century ago in fine books which used font faces very
   similar to \emph{Old Standard}. Typical use cases of small capitals
   were headers, current headings and in some books proper names.
+\item \emph{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 \emph{Old Standard} to come.
 \item The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (\verb|U+01E6|,
   uppercase) and ǧ (\verb|U+01E7|, lowercase) has been added. It is
   the only character missing from \emph{Old Standard} that is needed
@@ -339,28 +331,6 @@ example that follows:---
   \end{grc}
 \end{tcblisting}
 
-\subsection{Bold Italic shape}
-\label{sec:bold-italic-shape}
-\emph{Old Standard} does not feature a bold italic shape. However,
-both \XeTeX\ and \LuaTeX\ engines can emulate this shape as shown in
-the following two examples:
-
-\begin{tcblisting}{minted options={linenos, numbersep=0mm,
-      fontsize=\smaller}, listing only, title=\XeLaTeX}
-  \usepackage{fontspec}
-  \setmainfont{Old Standard}[
-    BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
-    BoldItalicFeatures={FakeBold=1.5}]  
-\end{tcblisting}
-
-\begin{tcblisting}{minted options={linenos, numbersep=0mm,
-      fontsize=\smaller}, listing only, title=\LuaLaTeX}
-  \usepackage{fontspec}
-  \setmainfont{Old Standard}[
-    BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
-    BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]
-\end{tcblisting}
-
 \subsection{Using \emph{Old Standard} in multilingual
   documents}
 \label{sec:using-old-standard}
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