X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/OldStandard/blobdiff_plain/aa5b60e7f6d56f244dc7297d0daf4f5ccb6d17e8..refs/heads/upstream:/README.md?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 47a8f82..ca25f32 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,61 +3,96 @@ Old Standard License ------- +### Old Standard Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (), without Reserved Font Names. -Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (), -without Reserved Font Names. - -Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert -Alessi: - - * email: - * website: - * development: - * comments, feature requests, bug reports: +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 *Old Standard*, it includes new -letters and some corrections: +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 are missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a + 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. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and +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] -3. Additionally, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by +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 \emph{Old Standard} and some -issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release \emph{Old -Standard}. +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: +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