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1<h1 id="old-standard">Old Standard</h1>
2<h2 id="license">License</h2>
3<p>Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<a
4href="mailto:amkryukov@gmail.com"
5class="email">amkryukov@gmail.com</a>), without Reserved Font Names.</p>
6<p>Copyright (c) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Robert Alessi (<a
7href="mailto:alessi@robertalessi.net"
8class="email">alessi@robertalessi.net</a>), without Reserved Font
9Names.</p>
10<p>Copyright (c) 2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<a
11href="mailto:atsol@aegean.gr" class="email">atsol@aegean.gr</a>),
12without Reserved Font Names.</p>
13<p>Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
14Alessi or Antonis Tsolomitis:</p>
15<ul>
16<li>email: <a href="mailto:alessi@roberalessi.net"
17class="email">alessi@roberalessi.net</a> / <a
18href="mailto:atsol@aegean.gr" class="email">atsol@aegean.gr</a></li>
19<li>website: <a href="https://sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard/"
20class="uri">https://sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard/</a></li>
21<li>development: <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard"
22class="uri">https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard</a></li>
23<li>comments, feature requests, bug reports: <a
24href="https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard"
25class="uri">https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard</a></li>
26</ul>
27<p>This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
28Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: <a
29href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL"
30class="uri">http://scripts.sil.org/OFL</a></p>
31<h2 id="history">History</h2>
32<p>This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov’s beautiful <em>Old
33Standard</em>.<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref1"
34role="doc-noteref"><sup>1</sup></a> In comparison to the previous
35releases of <em>Old Standard</em>, it includes new letters and some
36corrections:</p>
37<ol type="1">
38<li>Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
39styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, which
40were missing from <em>Old Standard</em>, were already in use a century
41ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to <em>Old
42Standard</em>. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers, current
43headings and in some books proper names.</li>
44<li><em>For the time being</em>, a bold italic shape has been
45auto-generated. Of course, auto-generating shapes is not a satisfactory
46solution. However, it is better than using the font loader to emulate
47bold shapes. A real bold italic shape is planned in the versions of
48<em>Old Standard</em> to come.</li>
49<li>The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (<code>U+01E6</code>,
50uppercase) and ǧ (<code>U+01E7</code>, lowercase) has been added. It is
51the only character missing from <em>Old Standard</em> that is needed in
52some of the accepted standards of romanization of classical Arabic.<a
53href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"
54role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a></li>
55<li>Additionally, this release corrects the <code>+ss06</code> feature
56provided by <em>Old Standard</em>. This feature is supposed to
57distinguish between regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print
58‘curled’ beta (<code>U+03D0</code>) in medial position. This feature
59worked in most cases with the previous release of <em>Old Standard</em>.
60However, it failed if the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute
61accent taken from the <em>Greek extended</em> Unicode block.</li>
62</ol>
63<h3 id="why-a-new-release-of-old-standard">Why a new release of <em>Old
64Standard</em>?</h3>
65<p>At the time of writing, <em>Old Standard</em> was last updated six
66years ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while
67in need to have new letters included in <em>Old Standard</em> and some
68issues addressed, took the decision to make a new release of <em>Old
69Standard</em>, while maintaining the hope that the author will one day
70resume the development of this typeface.</p>
71<h3 id="reference-web-page-archived-on-sept.-26-2019">Reference web page
72(archived on Sept. 26, 2019)</h3>
73<p><a
74href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190926123235/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html</a></p>
75<h2 id="documentation">Documentation</h2>
76<p>Please refer to Alexey Kryukov’s documentation which is can be found
77here: <a
78href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf"
79class="uri">http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf</a>
80(CTAN) or here: <a
81href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190924110631/http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html">http://thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts-download.html</a>
82(Alexey Kryukov’s web page).</p>
83<section id="footnotes" class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
84role="doc-endnotes">
85<hr />
86<ol>
87<li id="fn1"><p>See <a href="https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand"
88class="uri">https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand</a><a href="#fnref1"
89class="footnote-back" role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
90<li id="fn2"><p>See for references the <a
91href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf">current
92documentation of the arabluatex package</a>, sect. “Transliteration”.<a
93href="#fnref2" class="footnote-back" role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
94</ol>
95</section>