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-Old Standard T
-==============
+Old Standard
+============
 
 License
 -------
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ 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>
+
+
 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>
@@ -16,12 +25,12 @@ Version 1.1.  This license is available with a FAQ at:
 History
 -------
 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.
@@ -29,18 +38,21 @@ includes new letters and some corrections:
    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. Additionaly, *Old Standard T* corrects `+ss06` feature provided by
+3. Additionally, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by
    *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
-   regular and ‘curly’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curly’ 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.
+   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 \emph{Old Standard} and some
+issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release \emph{Old
+Standard}.
+
 
 Documentation
 -------------
@@ -51,4 +63,4 @@ here: <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
 
 [^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex
      package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf),
-     sect. ``Transliteration''.
+     sect. “Transliteration”.