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Old Standard T

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Old Standard

License

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Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (amkryukov@gmail.com), without Reserved Font Names.

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Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (alessi@robertalessi.net), without Reserved Font Names.

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This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

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Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (amkryukov@gmail.com), without Reserved Font Names.

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Copyright (c) 2019, 2020, Robert Alessi (alessi@robertalessi.net), without Reserved Font +Names.

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Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert +Alessi:

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This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, +Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

History

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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:

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  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.
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  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
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  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.
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    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:

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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    Why Old Standard T?

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    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.

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    Why a new release of Old +Standard?

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    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.

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    Reference web page +(archived on Sept. 26, 2019)

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    http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html

    Documentation

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    Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found here: http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf

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    Please refer to Alexey Kryukov’s documentation which is can be found +here: http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf +(CTAN) or here: http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html +(Alexey Kryukov’s web page).

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    1. See https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand↩

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    2. See for references the current documentation of the arabluatex package, sect. ``Transliteration''.↩

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    3. See https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand↩︎

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    4. See for references the current +documentation of the arabluatex package, sect. “Transliteration”.↩︎

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