From 00a7cdab3433d52a092fa53e1f5cd01edd54a684 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Alessi Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:47:52 +0200 Subject: renamed Old Standard T to Old Standard --- README.md | 34 ++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index aa414ff..47a8f82 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert Alessi: * email: - * website: - * development: - * comments, feature requests, bug reports: + * website: + * development: + * comments, feature requests, bug reports: This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ 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] 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, @@ -38,19 +38,21 @@ 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 ‘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 ------------- -- cgit v1.2.3