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 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://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard/about>
-  * 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
 -------
 This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
@@ -34,11 +43,9 @@ Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections:
    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. *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.
+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
@@ -50,6 +57,21 @@ Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections:
    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
@@ -59,13 +81,17 @@ 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
-<http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html>
+### 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>