X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/OldStandard/blobdiff_plain/9643d411de344da5726323815792e9aeb257c44e..15056307c3cbc20845111074fa057be95504f926:/README.md?ds=inline diff --git a/README.md b/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index ca25f32..0000000 --- a/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,101 +0,0 @@ -Old Standard -============ - -License -------- -### Old Standard -Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (), -without Reserved Font Names. - -Copyright (c) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Robert Alessi -(), without Reserved Font Names. - -Copyright (c) 2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (), 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: - - -### Old Standard Math -Copyright (c) 2019-2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (). -This work is released under the GUST Font License -- see - for details. - -Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert -Alessi or Antonis Tsolomitis: - - * email: / - * website: - * development: - * comments, feature requests, bug reports: - - -History -------- -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. 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] -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`. (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...
- 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 -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: - -(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 - -[^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex - package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf), - sect. “Transliteration”.