From: Robert Alessi <redacted>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 14:56:22 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: documenting
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documenting
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a32df12..891529d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,12 +29,13 @@ includes new letters and some corrections:
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 ‘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.
+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*?
At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
diff --git a/about.html b/about.html
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
<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 ‘curly’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curly’ 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, <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>
</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>
diff --git a/oldstandard-t.tex b/oldstandard-t.tex
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+\RequirePackage{filecontents}
+\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
+@software{arabluatex,
+ title = {The arabluatex package},
+ titleaddon = {Arab\TeX\ for Lua\LaTeX},
+ author = {Alessi, Robert},
+ url = {https://ctan.org/pkg/arabluatex},
+ version = {1.17}
+}
+@software{oldstandard,
+ title = {The OldStandard package},
+ titleaddon = {Old Standard: A Unicode Font for Classical and
+ Medieval Studies},
+ author = {Kryukov, Alexey},
+ editor = {Lečić, Nikola and Tennent, Bob},
+ editortype = {compiler},
+ url = {http://www.ctan.org/pkg/oldstandard},
+ version = {2.3}
+}
+\end{filecontents*}
+\documentclass[letterpaper,add-index]{cnltx-doc}
+\addtokomafont{disposition}{\rmfamily}
+\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
+\usepackage{fontspec}
+\usepackage[greek.ancient,english]{babel}
+\babeltags{grc = greek}
+
+\babelfont{rm}[BoldItalicFont={Old Standard T Italic},
+BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard T}
+
+\babelfont[greek]{rm}[RawFeature={+ss05;+ss06},
+BoldItalicFont={Old Standard T Italic},
+BoldItalicFeatures={RawFeature={+embolden=2}}]{Old Standard T}
+
+\usepackage{csquotes}
+\usepackage{varioref}
+\usepackage{paralist}
+
+\usepackage{latexcolors}
+\usepackage{arabluatex}
+\usepackage{teubner}
+\usepackage[style=oxnotes-inote]{biblatex}
+\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{\mkpageprefix[pagination][\mknormrange]{#1}}
+\addbibresource{oldstandard-t.bib}
+\usepackage[citecmd=autocite]{icite}
+\bibinput{oldstandard-t}
+
+\definecolorscheme{mydefault}{
+ cs => cnltxbrown ,
+ option => cnltxyellow ,
+ module => cnltxblue ,
+ comment => cnltxgray ,
+ beginend => red ,
+ env => black ,
+ argument => black ,
+ meta => black!80 ,
+ cnltx => cinnamon ,
+ cnltxbg => white ,
+ link => black!90 ,
+ versionnote => black!75 ,
+ bibentry => cnltxgreen ,
+ bibentryfield => black ,
+ expandable => red ,
+ unexpandable => black ,
+ makeidxkey => cnltxgreen ,
+ makeidxstring => black ,
+ math => cnltxgreen
+}
+
+\setcnltx{
+ color-scheme = mydefault,
+ %
+ package = oldstandard-t,
+ %
+ version = {v1.0},
+ %
+ date = \today,
+ %
+ info = Based on Alexey Kryukov's \emph{Old Standard},
+ %
+ name = oldstandard-t,
+ %
+ title = Old Standard T,
+ %
+ subtitle = A Unicode Font for Classical and Medieval Studies,
+ authors = Robert Alessi,
+ %
+ email = alessi@robertalessi.net,
+ %
+ url = https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard_t,
+ %
+ 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.}
+ %
+}
+
+\begin{document}
+\section{License}
+\label{sec:license}
+Copyright \textcopyright\ 2006--2011, Alexey Kryukov
+(\href{mailto:amkryukov@gmail.com}{amkryukov@gmail.com}), without
+Reserved Font Names.
+\\
+Copyright \textcopyright\ 2019, Robert Alessi
+(\href{mailto:alessi@robertalessi.net}{alessi@robertalessi.net}), without
+Reserved Font Names.
+
+This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
+Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at:
+\url{http://scripts.sil.org/OFL}
+
+\section{History}
+\label{sec:history}
+\emph{Old Standard} is a remarkable creation of Alexey Kryukov,
+inspired by a typeface most commonly used in books printed in the late
+\textsc{xix}\textsuperscript{th} and early
+\textsc{xx}\textsuperscript{th} century. The source files, which can
+be found online,\footnote{See
+ \url{https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand}} have been published
+under the terms of the OFL license (see above, sect{.}
+\vref{sec:license}). However, at the time of writing, the latest
+update dates back to Aug. 12, 2013. To be more precise, all of the
+five \enquote*{commits} the writer was able to see were pushed on the
+very same day. Since then, two \enquote*{pull requests} dating back to
+2017 have been remained unanswered. It is therefore to be feared that
+the project has been abandoned.
+
+To date, this release of \emph{Old Standard} has been published by
+Nikola Lečić and Bob Tennent and is available on CTAN and {\TeX}Live
+with a style file.\footnote{See
+ \url{https://ctan.org/pkg/oldstandard}}
+
+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}.
+
+\paragraph{Important disclaimer}
+The writer is very far from being able to design glyphs \emph{ex
+ nihilo}. That aside, he has some limited knowledge in the use of
+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}
+
+\section{Additions and corrections provided by
+ Old Stan\-dard~T}
+\label{sec:addit-corr-prov}
+\emph{Old Standard T} includes new letters and some corrections:
+\begin{compactenum}
+\item 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 \emph{Old Standard}, were already
+ in use a century ago in fine books which used font faces very
+ similar to \emph{Old Standard}. Typical use cases of small capitals
+ were headers, current headings and in some books proper names.
+\item The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (\verb|U+01E6|,
+ uppercase) and ǧ (\verb|U+01E7|, lowercase) has been added. It is
+ the only character missing from \emph{Old Standard} that is needed
+ in some of the accepted standards of romanization of classical
+ Arabic. See for references the current documentation of the
+ \pkg{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.
+\end{compactenum}
+
+
+\end{document}