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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 ,
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  expandable    => red ,
  unexpandable  => black ,
  makeidxkey    => cnltxgreen ,
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  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}