X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/OldStandard/blobdiff_plain/aa5b60e7f6d56f244dc7297d0daf4f5ccb6d17e8..09b2b2d9264b0dac00777d138ff01a93ddc8fbaf:/oldstandard.tex

diff --git a/oldstandard.tex b/oldstandard.tex
index 755b7fd..f23b346 100644
--- a/oldstandard.tex
+++ b/oldstandard.tex
@@ -31,12 +31,21 @@
 \usepackage[greek.ancient,english]{babel}
 \babeltags{grc = greek}
 
-\babelfont{rm}[BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
-BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard}
-
-\babelfont[greek]{rm}[RawFeature={+ss05;+ss06},
-BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
-BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard}
+% uncomment for testing:
+% \babelfont{rm}[Path = otf/,
+% ItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
+% BoldFont={OldStandard-Bold.otf},
+% BoldItalicFont={OldStandard-BoldItalic.otf}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
+
+% \babelfont[greek]{rm}[Path = otf/,
+% RawFeature={+ss05;+ss06},
+% ItalicFont={OldStandard-Italic.otf},
+% BoldFont={OldStandard-Bold.otf},
+% BoldItalicFont={OldStandard-BoldItalic.otf}]{OldStandard-Regular.otf}
+
+% use the following two lines once Old Standard is installed:
+\babelfont{rm}{Old Standard}
+\babelfont[greek]{rm}[RawFeature={+ss05;+ss06}]{Old Standard}
 
 \babelfont{tt}{CMU Typewriter Text}
 
@@ -55,7 +64,7 @@ BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard}
 \usepackage{hyperref}
 \hypersetup{unicode=true, linktocpage=true, colorlinks,
   allcolors=cinnamon, pdfauthor={Robert Alessi}, pdftitle={Old
-    Standard T}}
+    Standard}}
 \usepackage{uri}
 
 \usepackage{enumitem}
@@ -87,14 +96,14 @@ BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard}
 
 \usepackage[toc]{multitoc}
 
-\edef\pkgver{2.4}
+\edef\pkgver{2.4a}
 \edef\pkgdate{2019/07/25}
 \title{\mdseries\tcbox[colframe=black, enhanced, tikznode, drop
   lifted shadow, colback=white, boxrule=.25mm]%
   {\textsc{Old Standard}\\
     \Large
     A Unicode Font for Classical and Medieval Studies\\
-    \large Based on Alexey Kryukov's \emph{Old Standard}\\
+    \large Based on Alexey Kryukov's original \emph{Old Standard}\\
     \large v\pkgver -- \pkgdate}}
 
 \author{Robert Alessi \\
@@ -110,8 +119,8 @@ BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard}
 
 \begin{abstract}
   This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful \emph{Old
-    Standard}. In comparison to \emph{Old Standard}, it includes new
-  letters and some corrections.
+    Standard}. In comparison to the previous releases of \emph{Old
+    Standard}, it includes new letters and some corrections.
 \end{abstract}
 
 \section{License}
@@ -128,7 +137,7 @@ Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
 Alessi:
 \begin{itemize}
 \item email: \mailto[oldstandard package]{alessi@roberalessi.net}
-\item website: \url{http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard}
+\item website: \url{http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard/about}
 \item development: \url{http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard}
 \item comments, feature requests, bug reports:
 \url{https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues}
@@ -151,8 +160,8 @@ under the terms of the OFL license (see above,
 update dates back to Aug.\ 12, 2013. To be more precise, all of the
 five \enquote*{commits} the writer was able to see were pushed on the
 very same day. Since then, two \enquote*{pull requests} dating back to
-2017 have been remained unanswered. It is therefore to be feared that
-the project has been abandoned.  To date, this release of \emph{Old
+2017 have remained unanswered. It is therefore to be feared that the
+project has been abandoned.  To date, this release of \emph{Old
   Standard} has been published by Nikola Lečić and Bob Tennent and is
 available on CTAN and {\TeX}Live with a style file.\footnote{See
   \url{https://ctan.org/pkg/oldstandard}}
@@ -184,6 +193,11 @@ corrections:
   in use a century ago in fine books which used font faces very
   similar to \emph{Old Standard}. Typical use cases of small capitals
   were headers, current headings and in some books proper names.
+\item \emph{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 \emph{Old Standard} to come.
 \item The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (\verb|U+01E6|,
   uppercase) and ǧ (\verb|U+01E7|, lowercase) has been added. It is
   the only character missing from \emph{Old Standard} that is needed
@@ -322,28 +336,6 @@ example that follows:---
   \end{grc}
 \end{tcblisting}
 
-\subsection{Bold Italic shape}
-\label{sec:bold-italic-shape}
-\emph{Old Standard} does not feature a bold italic shape. However,
-both \XeTeX\ and \LuaTeX\ engines can emulate this shape as shown in
-the following two examples:
-
-\begin{tcblisting}{minted options={linenos, numbersep=0mm,
-      fontsize=\smaller}, listing only, title=\XeLaTeX}
-  \usepackage{fontspec}
-  \setmainfont{Old Standard}[
-    BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
-    BoldItalicFeatures={FakeBold=1.5}]  
-\end{tcblisting}
-
-\begin{tcblisting}{minted options={linenos, numbersep=0mm,
-      fontsize=\smaller}, listing only, title=\LuaLaTeX}
-  \usepackage{fontspec}
-  \setmainfont{Old Standard}[
-    BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
-    BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]
-\end{tcblisting}
-
 \subsection{Using \emph{Old Standard} in multilingual
   documents}
 \label{sec:using-old-standard}
