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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Old Standard | |||
3 | 3 | ||
4 | License | 4 | License |
5 | ------- | 5 | ------- |
6 | ### Old Standard | ||
6 | Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>), | 7 | Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>), |
7 | without Reserved Font Names. | 8 | without Reserved Font Names. |
8 | 9 | ||
@@ -12,6 +13,15 @@ Copyright (c) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Robert Alessi | |||
12 | Copyright (c) 2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<atsol@aegean.gr>), without | 13 | Copyright (c) 2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<atsol@aegean.gr>), without |
13 | Reserved Font Names. | 14 | Reserved Font Names. |
14 | 15 | ||
16 | This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, | ||
17 | Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: | ||
18 | <http://scripts.sil.org/OFL> | ||
19 | |||
20 | ### Old Standard Math | ||
21 | Copyright (c) 2019-2023 Antonis Tsolomitis (<atsol@aegean.gr>). | ||
22 | This work is released under the GUST Font License -- see | ||
23 | <http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt> for details. | ||
24 | |||
15 | Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert | 25 | Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert |
16 | Alessi or Antonis Tsolomitis: | 26 | Alessi or Antonis Tsolomitis: |
17 | 27 | ||
@@ -21,10 +31,6 @@ Alessi or Antonis Tsolomitis: | |||
21 | * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard> | 31 | * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://todo.sr.ht/~ralessi/oldstandard> |
22 | 32 | ||
23 | 33 | ||
24 | This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, | ||
25 | Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: | ||
26 | <http://scripts.sil.org/OFL> | ||
27 | |||
28 | History | 34 | History |
29 | ------- | 35 | ------- |
30 | This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old | 36 | This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old |
@@ -37,11 +43,9 @@ Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections: | |||
37 | century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to | 43 | century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to |
38 | *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers, | 44 | *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers, |
39 | current headings and in some books proper names. | 45 | current headings and in some books proper names. |
40 | 2. *For the time being*, a bold italic shape has been | 46 | 2. A bold italic shape was first auto-generated in 2019. Of course, |
41 | auto-generated. Of course, auto-generating shapes is not a | 47 | auto-generating shapes was not a satisfactory solution. Since then, |
42 | satisfactory solution. However, it is better than using the font | 48 | the characters have been reworked manually. |
43 | loader to emulate bold shapes. A real bold italic shape is planned | ||
44 | in the versions of *Old Standard* to come. | ||
45 | 3. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and | 49 | 3. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and |
46 | ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character | 50 | ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character |
47 | missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted | 51 | missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted |
@@ -53,6 +57,21 @@ Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections: | |||
53 | with the previous release of *Old Standard*. However, it failed if | 57 | with the previous release of *Old Standard*. However, it failed if |
54 | the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the | 58 | the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the |
55 | *Greek extended* Unicode block. | 59 | *Greek extended* Unicode block. |
60 | 5. Open theta has been replaced with closed theta in slot 03B8 and | ||
61 | rules ss05 and ss06 have been adjusted accordingly. | ||
62 | 6. **Oldstyle numerals**: These have been designed by Antonis | ||
63 | Tsolomitis for regular and bold series and can be selected by | ||
64 | `RawFeature=onum`. | ||
65 | 7. **Math Font**: This is a major and long-awaited enhancement | ||
66 | to Old Standard. The math font has been designed by Antonis | ||
67 | Tsolomitis from an old French book published by Gauthier-Villars | ||
68 | that used a font similar to Old Standard for Greek and a Bodoni font | ||
69 | for Latin. As both Bodoni and Old Standard were “romantic” | ||
70 | faces, it is hoped that they match up nicely, even if this remains | ||
71 | to be proven...<br/> | ||
72 | Two integrals are provided: a romantic one, which is selected by | ||
73 | default, and an upright version, which can be selected with | ||
74 | `StylisticSet=2`. | ||
56 | 75 | ||
57 | ### Why a new release of *Old Standard*? | 76 | ### Why a new release of *Old Standard*? |
58 | At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years | 77 | At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years |