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License
-------
+### Old Standard
Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>),
without Reserved Font Names.
-Copyright (c) 2019-2020, 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
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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 +57,22 @@ 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`. (Those for italic and bolditalic have been
+ designed by R. Alessi.)
+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
@@ -68,7 +91,7 @@ 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/downloads/oldstand-manual.pdf> (Alexey
+[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>