From b59d7395d3edb43fca17795d7dbbcb6f117844cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Alessi Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 19:36:21 +0200 Subject: updated README.md --- README.md | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e873455..8c13601 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,20 +3,52 @@ Old Standard T License ------- -Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov , +Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (), without Reserved Font Names. Copyright (c) 2019, 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 +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 *Old Standard*, *Old Standard T* +includes new letters and some corrections: -Notes ------ -[^1]: https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand +1. 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 *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. 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] +3. Additionaly, *Old Standard T* corrects `+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. + +### Why *Old Standard T*? +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*. + +Documentation +------------- +Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found +here: + +[^1]: See + +[^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex + package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf), + sect. ``Transliteration''. -- cgit v1.2.3