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Old Standard
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License
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Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Alexey Kryukov (<amkryukov@gmail.com>),
without Reserved Font Names.
Copyright (c) 2019, Robert Alessi (<alessi@robertalessi.net>),
without Reserved Font Names.
Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert
Alessi:
* email: <alessi@roberalessi.net>
* website: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard/about>
* development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard>
* comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues>
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at:
<http://scripts.sil.org/OFL>
History
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This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
Standard*.[^1] In comparison to the previous releases of *Old
Standard*, it includes new letters and some corrections:
1. 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 *Old Standard*, were already in use a
century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
*Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
current headings and in some books proper names.
2. *For the time being*, 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 *Old Standard* to come.
3. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character
missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted
standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2]
4. Additionally, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by
*Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta
(`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases
with the previous release of *Old Standard*. However, it failed if
the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the
*Greek extended* Unicode block.
### Why a new release of *Old Standard*?
At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
ago. Being unable himself to contact the author, the writer, while in
need to have new letters included in *Old Standard* and some issues
addressed, took the decision to make a new release of *Old Standard*.
Documentation
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Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found
here: <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
[^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand>
[^2]: See for references the [current documentation of the arabluatex
package](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/arabluatex/arabluatex.pdf),
sect. “Transliteration”.
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