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-Old Standard T
-==============
+Old Standard
+============
 
 License
 -------
-Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov <amkryukov@gmail.com>,
+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.
+
+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>
+
 
-This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
-This license is copied below, and is also 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>
 
 History
 -------
-This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful Old Standard.[^1]
+This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
+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 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.
+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]
+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
+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
+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>
 
-Notes
------
-[^1]: https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand
+[^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex
+     package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf),
+     sect. “Transliteration”.