X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/OldStandard/blobdiff_plain/b59d7395d3edb43fca17795d7dbbcb6f117844cb..2ebf53598c191c39d63b9cb5bed189e2704f3c0c:/README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8c13601..e7beb28 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Old Standard T -============== +Old Standard +============ License ------- @@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ 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: + + This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: @@ -16,31 +25,38 @@ 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: +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. *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] -3. Additionaly, *Old Standard T* corrects `+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 ‘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. + 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 *Old Standard T*? +### Why a new release of *Old Standard*? 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*. +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*. + Documentation ------------- @@ -51,4 +67,4 @@ here: [^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf), - sect. ``Transliteration''. + sect. “Transliteration”.