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author | Robert Alessi <alessi@robertalessi.net> | 2020-12-17 17:38:11 +0100 |
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committer | Robert Alessi <alessi@robertalessi.net> | 2020-12-17 17:38:11 +0100 |
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11 | </ul> | 11 | </ul> |
12 | <p>This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL" class="uri">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL</a></p> | 12 | <p>This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL" class="uri">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL</a></p> |
13 | <h2 id="history">History</h2> | 13 | <h2 id="history">History</h2> |
14 | <p>This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful <em>Old Standard</em>.<a href="#fn1" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> In comparison to the previous releases of <em>Old Standard</em>, it includes new letters and some corrections:</p> | 14 | <p>This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov’s beautiful <em>Old Standard</em>.<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a> In comparison to the previous releases of <em>Old Standard</em>, it includes new letters and some corrections:</p> |
15 | <ol style="list-style-type: decimal"> | 15 | <ol type="1"> |
16 | <li>Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, which were 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> | 16 | <li>Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, which were 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> |
17 | <li><em>For the time being</em>, a bold italic shape has been auto-generated. Of course, auto-generating shapes is not a satisfactory solution. However, it is better than using the font loader to emulate bold shapes. A real bold italic shape is planned in the versions of <em>Old Standard</em> to come.</li> | 17 | <li><em>For the time being</em>, a bold italic shape has been auto-generated. Of course, auto-generating shapes is not a satisfactory solution. However, it is better than using the font loader to emulate bold shapes. A real bold italic shape is planned in the versions of <em>Old Standard</em> to come.</li> |
18 | <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> | 18 | <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="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> |
19 | <li>Additionally, this release 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 worked in most cases with the previous release of <em>Old Standard</em>. However, it failed if the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the <em>Greek extended</em> Unicode block.</li> | 19 | <li>Additionally, this release 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 worked in most cases with the previous release of <em>Old Standard</em>. However, it failed if the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the <em>Greek extended</em> Unicode block.</li> |
20 | </ol> | 20 | </ol> |
21 | <h3 id="why-a-new-release-of-old-standard">Why a new release of <em>Old Standard</em>?</h3> | 21 | <h3 id="why-a-new-release-of-old-standard">Why a new release of <em>Old Standard</em>?</h3> |
22 | <p>At the time of writing, <em>Old Standard</em> was last updated six years ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in need to have new letters included in <em>Old Standard</em> and some issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release of <em>Old Standard</em>, while maintaining the hope that the author will one day resume the development of this typeface.</p> | 22 | <p>At the time of writing, <em>Old Standard</em> was last updated six years ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in need to have new letters included in <em>Old Standard</em> and some issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release of <em>Old Standard</em>, while maintaining the hope that the author will one day resume the development of this typeface.</p> |
23 | <h3 id="reference-web-page-archived-on-sept.-26-2019">Reference web page (archived on Sept. 26, 2019)</h3> | 23 | <h3 id="reference-web-page-archived-on-sept.26-2019">Reference web page (archived on Sept. 26, 2019)</h3> |
24 | <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190926123235/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html</a></p> | 24 | <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190926123235/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html</a></p> |
25 | <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2> | 25 | <h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2> |
26 | <p>Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found here: <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf" class="uri">http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf</a> (CTAN) or here: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190924110631/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html</a> (Alexey Kryukov's web page).</p> | 26 | <p>Please refer to Alexey Kryukov’s documentation which is can be found here: <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf" class="uri">http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf</a> (CTAN) or here: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190924110631/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html</a> (Alexey Kryukov’s web page).</p> |
27 | <div class="footnotes"> | 27 | <section class="footnotes"> |
28 | <hr /> | 28 | <hr /> |
29 | <ol> | 29 | <ol> |
30 | <li id="fn1"><p>See <a href="https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand" class="uri">https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand</a><a href="#fnref1">↩</a></p></li> | 30 | <li id="fn1"><p>See <a href="https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand" class="uri">https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand</a><a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back">↩</a></p></li> |
31 | <li id="fn2"><p>See for references the <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf">current documentation of the arabluatex package</a>, sect. “Transliteration”.<a href="#fnref2">↩</a></p></li> | 31 | <li id="fn2"><p>See for references the <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf">current documentation of the arabluatex package</a>, sect. “Transliteration”.<a href="#fnref2" class="footnote-back">↩</a></p></li> |
32 | </ol> | 32 | </ol> |
33 | </div> | 33 | </section> |