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

 
 License
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 License
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+### Old Standard

 Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>),
 without Reserved Font Names.
 
 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.
+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>
 
 
 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
 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,
 
 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. 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]
    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, *Old Standard T* 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 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.
+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
 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*,
+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
 
 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>
 
 
 [^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand>