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Old Standard

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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, 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

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History

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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 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

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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 -(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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