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Old Standard T
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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.

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 *Old Standard*, *Old Standard T*
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 are 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. 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]
3. Additionaly, *Old Standard T* corrects the `+ss06` feature provided
   by *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
   regular and ‘curly’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curly’ beta (`U+03D0`)
   in medial position. This feature works in most cases with *Old
   Standard*. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a vowel
   with an acute accent taken from the *Greek extended* Unicode block.

### Why *Old Standard T*?
At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
ago. Nevertheless, the letter `T` stands for *Transient*, which means
that *Old Standard T*, should only stay as long as what it features is
not included in *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''.