Alessi:
* email: <alessi@roberalessi.net>
- * website: <http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t>
- * development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t>
- * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard_t/issues>
+ * website: <http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard>
+ * development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard>
+ * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues>
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
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 *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,
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.
+3. 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 *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 \emph{Old Standard} and some
+issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release \emph{Old
+Standard}.
+
Documentation
-------------
<p>Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert Alessi:</p>
<ul>
<li>email: <a href="mailto:alessi@roberalessi.net">alessi@roberalessi.net</a></li>
-<li>website: <a href="http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t" class="uri">http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t</a></li>
-<li>development: <a href="http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t" class="uri">http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t</a></li>
-<li>comments, feature requests, bug reports: <a href="https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard_t/issues" class="uri">https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard_t/issues</a></li>
+<li>website: <a href="http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard" class="uri">http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard</a></li>
+<li>development: <a href="http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard" class="uri">http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard</a></li>
+<li>comments, feature requests, bug reports: <a href="https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues" class="uri">https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL" class="uri">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL</a></p>
<h2 id="history">History</h2>
-<p>This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful <em>Old Standard</em>.<a href="#fn1" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> In comparison to <em>Old Standard</em>, <em>Old Standard T</em> includes new letters and some corrections:</p>
+<p>This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful <em>Old Standard</em>.<a href="#fn1" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> In comparison to <em>Old Standard</em>, it includes new letters and some corrections:</p>
<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
<li>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 <em>Old Standard</em>, were already in use a century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to <em>Old Standard</em>. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers, current headings and in some books proper names.</li>
<li>The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (<code>U+01E6</code>, uppercase) and ǧ (<code>U+01E7</code>, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character missing from <em>Old Standard</em> that is needed in some of the accepted standards of romanization of classical Arabic.<a href="#fn2" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a></li>
-<li>Additionally, <em>Old Standard T</em> corrects the <code>+ss06</code> feature provided by <em>Old Standard</em>. This feature is supposed to distinguish between regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta (<code>U+03D0</code>) in medial position. This feature works in most cases with <em>Old Standard</em>. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the <em>Greek extended</em> Unicode block.</li>
+<li>Additionally, this release corrects the <code>+ss06</code> feature provided by <em>Old Standard</em>. This feature is supposed to distinguish between regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta (<code>U+03D0</code>) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases with the previous release of <em>Old Standard</em>. However, it failed if the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the <em>Greek extended</em> Unicode block.</li>
</ol>
-<h3 id="why-old-standard-t">Why <em>Old Standard T</em>?</h3>
-<p>At the time of writing, <em>Old Standard</em> was last updated six years ago. Nevertheless, the letter <code>T</code> stands for <em>Transient</em>, which means that <em>Old Standard T</em>, should only stay as long as what it features is not included in <em>Old Standard</em>.</p>
+<h3 id="why-a-new-release-of-old-standard">Why a new release of <em>Old Standard</em>?</h3>
+<p>At the time of writing, <em>Old Standard</em> was last updated six years ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in need to have new letters included in and some issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release .</p>
<h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
<p>Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found here: <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf" class="uri">http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf</a></p>
<div class="footnotes">
\usepackage[greek.ancient,english]{babel}
\babeltags{grc = greek}
-\babelfont{rm}[BoldItalicFont={Old Standard T Italic},
-BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard T}
+\babelfont{rm}[BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
+BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard}
\babelfont[greek]{rm}[RawFeature={+ss05;+ss06},
-BoldItalicFont={Old Standard T Italic},
-BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard T}
+BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
+BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard}
\babelfont{tt}{CMU Typewriter Text}
\usepackage[fullvoc]{arabluatex}
\usepackage[style=oxnotes-inote]{biblatex}
\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{\mkpageprefix[pagination][\mknormrange]{#1}}
-\addbibresource{oldstandard-t.bib}
+\addbibresource{oldstandard.bib}
\usepackage[citecmd=autocite,defaultindex=none]{icite}
-\bibinput{oldstandard-t}
+\bibinput{oldstandard}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\usepackage[toc]{multitoc}
-\edef\pkgver{1.0}
-\edef\pkgdate{2019/07/24}
+\edef\pkgver{2.4}
+\edef\pkgdate{2019/07/25}
\title{\mdseries\tcbox[colframe=black, enhanced, tikznode, drop
lifted shadow, colback=white, boxrule=.25mm]%
- {\textsc{Old Standard T}\\
+ {\textsc{Old Standard}\\
\Large
A Unicode Font for Classical and Medieval Studies\\
\large Based on Alexey Kryukov's \emph{Old Standard}\\
\begin{abstract}
This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful \emph{Old
- Standard}. In comparison to \emph{Old Standard}, \emph{Old
- Standard T} includes new letters and some corrections.
+ Standard}. In comparison to \emph{Old Standard}, it includes new
+ letters and some corrections.
\end{abstract}
\section{License}
Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
Alessi:
\begin{itemize}
-\item email: \mailto[oldstandard-t package]{alessi@roberalessi.net}
-\item website: \url{http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t}
-\item development: \url{http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard_t}
+\item email: \mailto[oldstandard package]{alessi@roberalessi.net}
+\item website: \url{http://www.robertalessi.net/oldstandard}
+\item development: \url{http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard}
\item comments, feature requests, bug reports:
-\url{https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard_t/issues}
+\url{https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues}
\end{itemize}
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in need
to have new letters included in \emph{Old Standard} and some issues
-addressed, took the decision to release \emph{Old Standard T}.
+addressed, took the decision to make a new release \emph{Old Standard}.
\paragraph{Important disclaimer}
The writer is very far from being able to design glyphs \emph{ex
FontForge, and, as a classicist, he is able to scrutinize how features
operate and if they operate as expected.
-In \emph{Old Standard T}, the letter \emph{T} stands for
-\emph{Transient}, which means that \emph{Old Standard T} should only
-stay as long as what it features is not included in \emph{Old
- Standard}.
-
\section{Documentation}
\label{sec:documentation}
-No documentation is associated with \emph{Old Standard T} as every
-item of the original extensive documentation applies. The reader
-should refer to it.\icite{oldstandard}
+No documentation is associated with this release of \emph{Old
+ Standard} as every item of the original extensive documentation
+applies. The reader should refer to it.\icite{oldstandard}
-\section{Additions and corrections provided by
- \emph{Old Standard~T}}
+\section{Additions and corrections provided}
\label{sec:addit-corr-prov}
-\emph{Old Standard T} includes new letters and some corrections:
+This release of \emph{Old Standard} includes new letters and some
+corrections:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all
three styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small
Arabic. See for references the current documentation of the
\textsf{arabluatex} package.\footnote{\icite{arabluatex}[cite], sect{.}
\enquote{Transliteration}.}
-\item Additionally, \emph{Old Standard T} corrects the \verb|+ss06|
- feature provided by \emph{Old Standard}. This feature is supposed to
- distinguish between regular and \enquote*{curled} beta (β/ϐ) and to
- print \enquote*{curled} beta (\verb|U+03D0|) in medial
- position. This feature works in most cases with \emph{Old
- Standard}. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a vowel
- with an acute accent taken from the Greek extended Unicode block.
+\item Additionally, this release corrects the \verb|+ss06| feature
+ which is supposed to distinguish between regular and
+ \enquote*{curled} beta (β/ϐ) and to print \enquote*{curled} beta
+ (\verb|U+03D0|) in medial position. This feature worked in most
+ cases with the previous releases. However, it failed if the beta was
+ preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the Greek
+ extended Unicode block.
\end{enumerate}
\section{Usage}
\label{sec:usage}
-\emph{Old Standard T} works with \TeX\ engines that directly support
+\emph{Old Standard} works with \TeX\ engines that directly support
OpenType features such as \XeTeX\ and \LuaTeX.
It is loaded with \pkg{fontspec} like so:---
\begin{code}
\usepackage{fontspec}
- \setmainfont{Old Standard T}
+ \setmainfont{Old Standard}
\end{code}
\paragraph{Small capitals}
-Small capitals have been added in \emph{Old Standard T} for the
-following languages or transcription schemes: French, German, Italian,
-Spanish, unaccented Greek, basic Russian and Arabic \enquote*{DMG}.
+Small capitals have been added for the following languages or
+transcription schemes: French, German, Italian, Spanish, unaccented
+Greek, basic Russian and Arabic \enquote*{DMG}.
The following two examples demonstrate the use of small capitals:---
\begin{tcblisting}{minted language=latex, title=Initials, minted
\end{tcblisting}
\paragraph{The letter \enquote*{ǧ}} It is used notably to print
-romanized Arabic. \emph{Old Standard T} now features this letter in
-all of the three styles (Regular, Italic and Bold):---
+romanized Arabic. \emph{Old Standard} now features this letter in all
+of the three styles (Regular, Italic and Bold):---
\begin{tcblisting}{minted language=latex, minted
options={fontsize=\smaller, linenos, numbersep=0mm,
highlightlines={3,6,9}}}
But nowadays, they simply mix them up. As a result of this confusion,
in \emph{Old Standard}, vowels with acute were simply missing from the
Greek Extended Block. All of them, including the standalone accents,
-have been restored in \emph{Old Standard T}. Furthermore, the rule
-that instructed to absorb vowels with acute into vowels with
-\emph{tonos} has been removed.
+have been restored. Furthermore, the rule that instructed to absorb
+vowels with acute into vowels with \emph{tonos} has been removed.
Since assigning vowels with \emph{tonos} and vowels with acute to the
same code points is clearly unacceptable even if the glyphs are
-identical, it is now possible in \emph{Old Standard T} to input all
+identical, it is now possible in \emph{Old Standard} to input all
accented vowels from the Greek Extended Unicode block exclusively and
have the substitution rules applied at the same time, as shown by the
example that follows:---
\subsection{Bold Italic shape}
\label{sec:bold-italic-shape}
-As \emph{Old Standard}, \emph{Old Standard T} does not feature a bold
-italic shape. However, both \XeTeX\ and \LuaTeX\ engines can emulate
-this shape as shown in the following two examples:
+\emph{Old Standard} does not feature a bold italic shape. However,
+both \XeTeX\ and \LuaTeX\ engines can emulate this shape as shown in
+the following two examples:
\begin{tcblisting}{minted options={linenos, numbersep=0mm,
fontsize=\smaller}, listing only, title=\XeLaTeX}
\usepackage{fontspec}
- \setmainfont{Old Standard T}[
- BoldItalicFont={Old Standard T Italic},
+ \setmainfont{Old Standard}[
+ BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
BoldItalicFeatures={FakeBold=1.5}]
\end{tcblisting}
\begin{tcblisting}{minted options={linenos, numbersep=0mm,
fontsize=\smaller}, listing only, title=\LuaLaTeX}
\usepackage{fontspec}
- \setmainfont{Old Standard T}[
- BoldItalicFont={Old Standard T Italic},
+ \setmainfont{Old Standard}[
+ BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]
\end{tcblisting}
-\subsection{Using \emph{Old Standard T} in multilingual
+\subsection{Using \emph{Old Standard} in multilingual
documents}
\label{sec:using-old-standard}
\pkg{babel} provides a high level interface on top of \pkg{fontspec}
to select fonts depending on the languages to be used.\icite[For more
information, the reader should refer to][10,24]{babel} As an example,
-here is how \emph{Old Standard T} has been loaded in the preamble of
+here is how \emph{Old Standard} has been loaded in the preamble of
this document to be compiled with \LuaLaTeX:---
\begin{code}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\usepackage[greek.ancient,english]{babel}
\babeltags{grc = greek}
- \babelfont{rm}[BoldItalicFont={Old Standard T Italic},
- BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard T}
+ \babelfont{rm}[BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
+ BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard}
\babelfont[greek]{rm}[RawFeature={+ss05;+ss06},
- BoldItalicFont={Old Standard T Italic},
- BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard T}
+ BoldItalicFont={Old Standard Italic},
+ BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard}
\end{code}
-Then, once \emph{Old Standard T} has been loaded with \cs{babelfont}
+Then, once \emph{Old Standard} has been loaded with \cs{babelfont}
properly,
\begin{enumerate}
\item \cs{textgrc}\marg{Greek text} can be used for short insertions
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