X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/OldStandard/blobdiff_plain/dfcdbfe5461d432641391351dbc2eec1ddedd5f7..63793b66e6809e1b7f2db09a3b6a8fdd00e6e603:/README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 891529d..436ce26 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,14 +1,23 @@ -Old Standard T -============== +Old Standard +============ License ------- Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (), without Reserved Font Names. -Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (), +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: @@ -16,37 +25,51 @@ 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. Additionally, *Old Standard T* 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 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*? +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. 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*, +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