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4 | License | 4 | License |
5 | ------- | 5 | ------- |
6 | Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov <amkryukov@gmail.com>, | 6 | Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>), |
7 | without Reserved Font Names. | 7 | without Reserved Font Names. |
8 | 8 | ||
9 | Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (<alessi@robertalessi.net>), | 9 | Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (<alessi@robertalessi.net>), |
10 | without Reserved Font Names. | 10 | without Reserved Font Names. |
11 | 11 | ||
12 | This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. | 12 | This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, |
13 | This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: | 13 | Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: |
14 | http://scripts.sil.org/OFL | 14 | <http://scripts.sil.org/OFL> |
15 | 15 | ||
16 | History | 16 | History |
17 | ------- | 17 | ------- |
18 | This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful Old Standard.[^1] | 18 | This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old |
19 | Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, *Old Standard T* | ||
20 | includes new letters and some corrections: | ||
19 | 21 | ||
20 | Notes | 22 | 1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three |
21 | ----- | 23 | styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals, |
22 | [^1]: https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand | 24 | which are missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a |
25 | century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to | ||
26 | *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers, | ||
27 | current headings and in some books proper names. | ||
28 | 2. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and | ||
29 | ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character | ||
30 | missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted | ||
31 | standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2] | ||
32 | 3. Additionaly, *Old Standard T* corrects `+ss06` feature provided by | ||
33 | *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between | ||
34 | regular and ‘curly’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curly’ beta (`U+03D0`) | ||
35 | in medial position. This feature works in most cases with *Old | ||
36 | Standard*. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a vowel | ||
37 | with an acute accent taken from the *Greek extended* Unicode block. | ||
38 | |||
39 | ### Why *Old Standard T*? | ||
40 | At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years | ||
41 | ago. Nevertheless, the letter `T` stands for *Transient*, which means | ||
42 | that *Old Standard T*, should only stay as long as what it features is | ||
43 | not included in *Old Standard*. | ||
44 | |||
45 | Documentation | ||
46 | ------------- | ||
47 | Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found | ||
48 | here: <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf> | ||
49 | |||
50 | [^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand> | ||
51 | |||
52 | [^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex | ||
53 | package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf), | ||
54 | sect. ``Transliteration''. | ||