X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/OldStandard/blobdiff_plain/f7bb36657d8741e6798cefa8e286f6c9a76ec242..4dd1f199d8129b6581a3a1a1b63d4f833653d739:/README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e873455..777c056 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,22 +1,78 @@ -Old Standard T -============== +Old Standard +============ License ------- -Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov , +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. -This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. -This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: -http://scripts.sil.org/OFL +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: + History ------- -This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful Old Standard.[^1] +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: + +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. +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] +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. 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: + +(CTAN) or here: + (Alexey +Kryukov's web page). + +[^1]: See -Notes ------ -[^1]: https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand +[^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex + package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf), + sect. “Transliteration”.