X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/OldStandard/blobdiff_plain/43e89ace8ca236a1bf9e1942e2a05b5adacd7b89..15056307c3cbc20845111074fa057be95504f926:/FONTLOG.txt?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/FONTLOG.txt b/FONTLOG.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 53fd7a5..0000000 --- a/FONTLOG.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,371 +0,0 @@ -FONTLOG -Old Standard font family -======================== - -This file provides detailed information on the Old Standard family of -fonts. This information should be distributed along with the Old Standard -fonts and any derivative works. - -Basic Font Information ----------------------- - -The Old Standard font family is an attempt to revive a specific type of -Modern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various -editions printed in the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost -completely abandoned later. Although contemporary typographers often -consider this lettertype obsolete and out-of-fashion, it still has at least -two advantages: - --- The classicist style still can be considered a good choice for -typesetting scientific papers, especially on social and humanitarian -sciences, as its specific features are closely associated in the people's -eyes with old books they learned on; - --- the most beautiful examples of Greek and Cyrillic lettertypes were all -based on the Modern style, so that for those scripts "Modern" fonts -are much more appropriate than any contemporary (e. g. Times-based) -designs. - -That's why the Old Standard font family has two main purposes: it is -intended to be used as a specialized font for philologists (mainly -classicists, germanists and slavists) and also as a general-purpose font -for typesetting various editions in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic -script. For this reason Old Standard provides glyphs for a wide range of -Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters. - -The name "Old Standard" was selected as opposed to the "Obyknovennaya -Novaya" ("New Standard") typeface, widely used in the Soviet typography, -which represents another, slightly different type of the same Modern style. -The digital version of this font is now available from Paratype -(http://www.paratype.ru). Of course this name doesn't look very original, -but it seems to be a good choice for a revival of the most common -lettertype of the early 20th century. - -ChangeLog ---------- - -2020 December 18 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.6 - - * Added 2nd pointer to Alexey Kryukov's archived webpage. - - * Added and updated FONTLOG.txt (this file). - - * New file: OldStandard.fontspec. Slanted shapes for regular and bold are - now available through the 'FakeSlant' feature of fontspec. - - * Updated naming schemes in BoldItalic. Thanks to Jontxo Reig for - testing. - -2020 February 24 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.5 - - * Updated documentation and makefile. - - * Better g caron. - - * Added missing small capitals Ā, Ī and Ū. - - * Added font table. - - * Reset all hinting information and instructions. - - * Removed duplicate c2sc and smcp rules. - - * Added small capitals for all Greek accented letters. - -2019 July 26 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.4a - - * Reshaped macron, acute, grave and j in BoldItalic. - -2019 July 25 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.4 - - * Added auto-generated BoldItalic. - -2019 July 24 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.3 (1.0 in the current git repo) - - * Fixed missing direction in U+2023. - - * fixed missing control points, wrong coordinates and directions - in OldStandardT-Italic.sfd. - - * Added g caron. - - * Added small capitals in Regular (French, German, Italian, - Spanish, Basic Russian and Arabic DMG). - - * Make +ss06 work if beta is preceded by a vowel with an accute - accent taken from the Greek Extended Unicode block. - -2011 April 30 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.2 - - * Latin Extended Additional (again, except Vietnamese and - medievalist additions) for Bold and Italic. - - * More punctuation characters, including New Testament critical - signs. - - * New implementation for the 'frac' feature: it is now possible to - build any arbitrary fractions rather than just those available - in Unicode in the precomposed form. - - * SIL's Graphite rendering technologie is now supported. The - features available are mostly the same as for OpenType, but - there are some additions (in particular it is possible to render - a Greek text with accents above capitals). The manual has also - been changed to reflect the new functionality. - - * Cosmetic glyph changes (foots/arms in Cyrillic 'Ka', 'Zhe', 'Ya' - in particular). - - * Added human-readable stylistic set names (US English only) and - style (sub-family) names in a few additional languages. - - * The fonts are now available also in the WOFF format to simplify - embedding into web pages. - -2009 November 18 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.1 (not released) - - * The "Greek and Coptic" Unicode range is now fully covered, - except Coptic letters. The epigraphic letters have been - implemented in a simple sans-serif style: I don't like - "creativity" if it can result in producing urecognizable glyphs. - - * Regular and bold: New alternate glyphs for Cyrillic IE - (U+0415/U+0435) and Ukrainian IE (U+0404/U+0454), used by - default for Church Slavonic. The intent is to make Old Cyrillic - YEST clearly distinguishable both from Latin E and "wide" YEST. - - * New glyphs for CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER MONOGRAPH UK (in all 3 - styles). - - * I have implemented a k-shaped kappa in all three styles, a - script rho in regular and bold and a rho with straignt tail in - italic. These characters (except the script rho) are kept - unencoded and can be accessed via the 'mgrk' feature tag. I - don't think they would be very useful, but at least it is now - possible to use Old Standard for typesetting a copy of the - Unicode Greek codechart (I needed one for a book I was - preparing). - - * Multiple cosmetic glyph changes. In particular Latin capital - "C", "E", "F", "G", "L" and related glyphs have got heavier - vertical serifs in the regular font. Cedilla is redesigned - (once again) in regular and bold. Shapes of some Greek letters - (including alternate beta and theta) have also been improved. - - * I no longer use custom PUA mappings. I have preserved PUA - codepoints for a few standard glyphs (including capital accents) - previously mapped there by Adobe, as well as for additional - accented Greek characters implemented for compatibility with - Ralph Hancock's fonts. Everything else has been moved outside - the encoding. - - * Oops. I was wrong regarding "zhe with breve": this letter - actually should be formed with a standard (Latin) breve rather - than a Cyrillic telephone receiver-like accent. BTW I think rhis - letter should be available in the font: since I already support - historical Romanian characters, the modern Moldavian Cyrillic - alphabet should be supported as well. - - * The regular font now includes most accented characters from the - Latin Extended Additional range (but not Vietnamese). - -2008 November 18 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.0 - - * A bold version is now available! - - * Added a full set of historical Cyrillic characters, as defined - in Unicode 5.1; - - * Implemented Roman numerals and ancient Roman epigraphic letters - (including Claudian letters). - - * Switched to lookup-based representation of the OpenType data in - the source files to conform the new FontForge's file format; - - * Now both cubic and quadratic versions of the font outlines are - stored in the same source files (one file for each style), as - FontForge's new approach to multilayered fonts allows this; - - * Switched to OFL version 1.1; - - * FontForge now can generate reasonably good TTF instructions (it - could not when OldStandard v. 1.0 was released). So the TTF - fonts are now automatically instructed with FontForge. I still - include the old instructions for the regular version (prepared - with Peter Baker's xgridfit utility) into the source package, - but they are no longer used in the font itself. This certainly - makes some glyphs look worse, but improves the overall - performance of the font (especially in the antialiased mode); - - * Danish Aringacute redesigned (now has the acute at the top of - the ring and a specially designed, reduced in size, diacritic - for the capital glyph); - - * Redesigned cedilla and all combinations with this accent in the - upright font; - - * More contour cleanup; - - * Added accented combinations with "W" for Welsh; - - * Added several new math characters to the regular font. The - intent was to fully cover the TeX OMS encoding, but this task is - still far from being reached; - - * There is now a dedicated Unicode codepoint for capital insular - "G" (U+A77D), so move the corresponding glyph to that location; - - * Corrected the shape of Greek symbol phi (U+03D5). It is still - not recommended to use this glyph instead of the normal (looped) - form; - - * Several new characters have been added, including the Latin - letter EZH (U+01B7/U+0292) and capital Es Zett for German - (U+1E9E). There are some new combining marks as well; - - * I used to consider the breve accent should always take the - typically Cyrillic form when used after Cyrillic - letters. However this assumption seems to be wrong: the specific - form of the diacritic is actually an attribute of just three - letters, i. e. "short i" (Russian etc.), "Short u" - (Byelorussian) and "zhe with breve" (Moldavian). - -2007 July 14 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.1 (not released) - - * Added Latin letters OPEN E and OPEN O, requested by an African - user; - - * New glyph for ampersand in the upright font; - - * Redesigned Polish ogonek and Czech comma-like caron; - - * More work on italic Greek letters; - - * General contour cleanup for some glyphs. - -2007 January 22 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.0 - - * Added the WHITE SQUARE (U+25A1) character; - - * Minor corrections in the fonts themselves and in the PDF manual. - -2006 December 12 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.9 - - * Added a few more Latin Extended-B characters, yogh and wynn in - particular (thanks to Peter Baker for the valuable information - on the design of the letter yogh he provided). I also have - implemented uppercase and lowercase versions of the insular - "g". Thus Old Standard is now suitable for typesetting texts in - Old and Middle English. - - * Added Hebrew aleph and a few Fraktur characters, useful for - critical apparatus, especially in Bible/New Testament editions. - - * Implemented a full set of standard f-ligatures, present in most - OpenType fonts. - - * Andrew Panov has convinced me to implement a set of mathematical - glyphs, designed in the style of traditional Russian math - typesetting. These glyphs are currently available only in the - regular version of the font. - - * A PDF manual, explaining various features of the font, is now - available. - - * Greek sampi (both uppercase and lowercase) has been redesigned. - - * Implemented Greek lunate epsilon and reversed lunate epsilon - (the design doesn't match the remaining Greek letters - though). Thus all Unicode slots intended for "alternate" and - mathematical Greek glyphs are now covered. - - * A few improvements in the TTF instructions for the regular font - (drop-out control has been enabled). - - * Several minor corrections in the OpenType layouts. - -2006 October 01 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.8 - - * Implemented a set of TrueType instructions (hints) for the - regular font (italics are still unhinted). I would like to thank - Peter Baker for his excellent (and extremely well documented) - xgridfit program (http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net), which - provides a good Open Source solution for gridfitting, or - "hinting," TrueType fonts. - - * The TrueType version of the regular font now has a separate - source file (OldStandard.ttf.sfd) with quadratic splines. - - * Changed the naming convention for the TrueType version: the font - name now has a "TT" suffix, so that both TTF and OTF versions - can be installed on the same system simultaneously. - - * Added a few Latin Extended-B characters, useful mainly for - germanists, in particular "b" with bar, "o" with ogonek and - hwair. Also I have corrected shapes of lowercase eth and - thorn. Thus Old Standard now includes all characters necessary - for representing Old Icelandic texts and Gothic - transliteration. Still more characters (the most important of - them being uppercase and lowercase yogh) are needed for a proper - support of Old/Middle English. - - * As usual, a few minor bugs have been corrected. - -2006 June 09 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.7 - - * Added OpenType layouts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Special - attention has been paid to correct shaping and positioning of - diacritical marks. - - * Minor corrections of glyph shapes. - -2006 May 08 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.6 - - * License changed to the SIL Open Font License. - - * Added Greek glyphs, including those in the U+1F00--U+1FFF "Greek - Extended" Unicode range. - - * Ukrainian and Serbian Cyrillic glyphs were redesigned in order - to bring them into a better correspondance with real examples of - the early 20th century printing. - - * The standard mathematical operation signs were redesigned and - significantly enlarged, so that now their implementation - contradicts to the contemporary standards, but better - corresponds to the European tradition of math typesetting. - - * Several additional math characters, needed to provide a full - coverage for the Mac Roman encoding, have been added. - - * Ancient Greek metrical characters (U+23D1--U+23D9) have been - implemented. - - * A TTF version is released in addition to OpenType-CFF fonts. It - has no hinting at all, so don't complain for bad screen - rendering! - -2006 Feb 14 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.2 - - * First public release. - -Acknowledgements ----------------- -(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications -be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description -(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.) - -N: Alexey Kryukov -E: alexios@thessalonica.org.ru -W: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru -D: Original Designer of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs - -For more information please visit the Fonts page on Thessalonica's -website: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html. - -Or send an email to . - -N: Robert Alessi -E: alessi@robertalessi.net -W: http://www.robertalessi.net -D: Current maintainer of Old Standard