X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/OldStandard/blobdiff_plain/af01c51fca22107c70df423958190f827b693470..15056307c3cbc20845111074fa057be95504f926:/README.md?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/README.md b/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 436ce26..0000000 --- a/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,78 +0,0 @@ -Old Standard -============ - -License -------- -Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (), -without Reserved Font Names. - -Copyright (c) 2019-2020, 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: - - -This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, -Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: - - -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. *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. -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. - -### 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”.