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[OldStandard] / README.md

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-Old Standard T
-==============
+Old Standard
+============

 
 License
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 License
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@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ without Reserved Font Names.
 Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (<alessi@robertalessi.net>),
 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://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard/about>
+  * 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>
 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>


@@ -16,31 +25,38 @@ Version 1.1.  This license is available with a FAQ at:
 History
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 This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
 History
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 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,
 
 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.
    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]
    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 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.
-
-### Why *Old Standard T*?
+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.
+
+### Why a new release of *Old Standard*?

 At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
 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 *Old Standard* and some issues
+addressed, took the decision to make a new release of *Old Standard*.
+

 
 Documentation
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 Documentation
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@@ -51,4 +67,4 @@ 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),
 
 [^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”.