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4License 4License
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6Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov <amkryukov@gmail.com>, 6Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>),
7without Reserved Font Names. 7without Reserved Font Names.
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9Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (<alessi@robertalessi.net>), 9Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (<alessi@robertalessi.net>),
10without Reserved Font Names. 10without Reserved Font Names.
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12This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. 12This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
13This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: 13Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at:
14http://scripts.sil.org/OFL 14<http://scripts.sil.org/OFL>
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16History 16History
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18This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful Old Standard.[^1] 18This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
19Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, *Old Standard T*
20includes new letters and some corrections:
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20Notes 221. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
21----- 23 styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals,
22[^1]: https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand 24 which are missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
25 century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
26 *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
27 current headings and in some books proper names.
282. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
29 ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character
30 missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted
31 standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2]
323. Additionaly, *Old Standard T* corrects `+ss06` feature provided by
33 *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
34 regular and ‘curly’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curly’ beta (`U+03D0`)
35 in medial position. This feature works in most cases with *Old
36 Standard*. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a vowel
37 with an acute accent taken from the *Greek extended* Unicode block.
38
39### Why *Old Standard T*?
40At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
41ago. Nevertheless, the letter `T` stands for *Transient*, which means
42that *Old Standard T*, should only stay as long as what it features is
43not included in *Old Standard*.
44
45Documentation
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47Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found
48here: <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
49
50[^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand>
51
52[^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex
53 package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf),
54 sect. ``Transliteration''.