X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/OldStandard/blobdiff_plain/b59d7395d3edb43fca17795d7dbbcb6f117844cb..15056307c3cbc20845111074fa057be95504f926:/README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8c13601..0000000 --- a/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -Old Standard T -============== - -License -------- -Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (), -without Reserved Font Names. - -Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (), -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: - - -History -------- -This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old -Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, *Old Standard T* -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 - 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 - 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. Additionaly, *Old Standard T* corrects `+ss06` feature provided by - *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between - regular and ‘curly’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curly’ beta (`U+03D0`) - in medial position. This feature works in most cases with *Old - Standard*. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a vowel - with an acute accent taken from the *Greek extended* Unicode block. - -### Why *Old Standard T*? -At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years -ago. Nevertheless, the letter `T` stands for *Transient*, which means -that *Old Standard T*, should only stay as long as what it features is -not included in *Old Standard*. - -Documentation -------------- -Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found -here: - -[^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''.