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diff --git a/fonts/oldstandard/doc/FONTLOG.txt b/fonts/oldstandard/doc/FONTLOG.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8ea2eb6533..0000000000 --- a/fonts/oldstandard/doc/FONTLOG.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,301 +0,0 @@ -FONTLOG -Old Standard font family -======================== - -This file provides detailed information on the Old Standard family of -fonts. This information should be distributed along with the Old Standard -fonts and any derivative works. - -Basic Font Information ----------------------- - -The Old Standard font family is an attempt to revive a specific type of -Modern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various -editions printed in the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost -completely abandoned later. Although contemporary typographers often -consider this lettertype obsolete and out-of-fashion, it still has at least -two advantages: - --- The classicist style still can be considered a good choice for -typesetting scientific papers, especially on social and humanitarian -sciences, as its specific features are closely associated in the people's -eyes with old books they learned on; - --- the most beautiful examples of Greek and Cyrillic lettertypes were all -based on the Modern style, so that for those scripts "Modern" fonts -are much more appropriate than any contemporary (e. g. Times-based) -designs. - -That's why the Old Standard font family has two main purposes: it is -intended to be used as a specialized font for philologists (mainly -classicists, germanists and slavists) and also as a general-purpose font -for typesetting various editions in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic -script. For this reason Old Standard provides glyphs for a wide range of -Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters. - -The name "Old Standard" was selected as opposed to the "Obyknovennaya -Novaya" ("New Standard") typeface, widely used in the Soviet typography, -which represents another, slightly different type of the same Modern style. -The digital version of this font is now available from Paratype -(http://www.paratype.ru). Of course this name doesn't look very original, -but it seems to be a good choice for a revival of the most common -lettertype of the early 20th century. - -ChangeLog ---------- -2011 April 30 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.2 - - * Latin Extended Additional (again, except Vietnamese and medievalist additions) - for Bold and Italic. - - * More punctuation characters, including New Testament critical signs. - - * New implementation for the 'frac' feature: it is now possible to build - any arbitrary fractions rather than just those available in Unicode in the - precomposed form. - - * SIL's Graphite rendering technologie is now supported. The features available - are mostly the same as for OpenType, but there are some additions (in - particular it is possible to render a Greek text with accents above capitals). - The manual has also been changed to reflect the new functionality. - - * Cosmetic glyph changes (foots/arms in Cyrillic 'Ka', 'Zhe', 'Ya' in - particular). - - * Added human-readable stylistic set names (US English only) and style - (sub-family) names in a few additional languages. - - * The fonts are now available also in the WOFF format to simplify embedding - into web pages. - -2009 November 18 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.1 (not released) - - * The "Greek and Coptic" Unicode range is now fully covered, except Coptic - letters. The epigraphic letters have been implemented in a simple sans-serif - style: I don't like "creativity" if it can result in producing urecognizable - glyphs. - - * Regular and bold: New alternate glyphs for Cyrillic IE (U+0415/U+0435) and - Ukrainian IE (U+0404/U+0454), used by default for Church Slavonic. The intent - is to make Old Cyrillic YEST clearly distinguishable both from Latin E and - "wide" YEST. - - * New glyphs for CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER MONOGRAPH UK (in all 3 styles). - - * I have implemented a k-shaped kappa in all three styles, a script rho in - regular and bold and a rho with straignt tail in italic. These characters - (except the script rho) are kept unencoded and can be accessed via the 'mgrk' - feature tag. I don't think they would be very useful, but at least it is now - possible to use Old Standard for typesetting a copy of the Unicode Greek - codechart (I needed one for a book I was preparing). - - * Multiple cosmetic glyph changes. In particular Latin capital "C", "E", "F", - "G", "L" and related glyphs have got heavier vertical serifs in the regular font. - Cedilla is redesigned (once again) in regular and bold. Shapes of some Greek - letters (including alternate beta and theta) have also been improved. - - * I no longer use custom PUA mappings. I have preserved PUA codepoints for - a few standard glyphs (including capital accents) previously mapped there - by Adobe, as well as for additional accented Greek characters implemented - for compatibility with Ralph Hancock's fonts. Everything else has been moved - outside the encoding. - - * Oops. I was wrong regarding "zhe with breve": this letter actually - should be formed with a standard (Latin) breve rather than a Cyrillic - telephone receiver-like accent. BTW I think rhis letter should be - available in the font: since I already support historical Romanian - characters, the modern Moldavian Cyrillic alphabet should be supported - as well. - - * The regular font now includes most accented characters from the - Latin Extended Additional range (but not Vietnamese). - -2008 November 18 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.0 - - * A bold version is now available! - - * Added a full set of historical Cyrillic characters, as defined - in Unicode 5.1; - - * Implemented Roman numerals and ancient Roman epigraphic letters - (including Claudian letters). - - * Switched to lookup-based representation of the OpenType data - in the source files to conform the new FontForge's file format; - - * Now both cubic and quadratic versions of the font outlines are stored - in the same source files (one file for each style), as FontForge's - new approach to multilayered fonts allows this; - - * Switched to OFL version 1.1; - - * FontForge now can generate reasonably good TTF instructions (it - could not when OldStandard v. 1.0 was released). So the TTF fonts - are now automatically instructed with FontForge. I still include - the old instructions for the regular version (prepared with - Peter Baker's xgridfit utility) into the source package, but they - are no longer used in the font itself. This certainly makes some - glyphs look worse, but improves the overall performance of the font - (especially in the antialiased mode); - - * Danish Aringacute redesigned (now has the acute at the top of the ring - and a specially designed, reduced in size, diacritic for the capital - glyph); - - * Redesigned cedilla and all combinations with this accent in the upright - font; - - * More contour cleanup; - - * Added accented combinations with "W" for Welsh; - - * Added several new math characters to the regular font. The intent was - to fully cover the TeX OMS encoding, but this task is still far from - being reached; - - * There is now a dedicated Unicode codepoint for capital insular "G" - (U+A77D), so move the corresponding glyph to that location; - - * Corrected the shape of Greek symbol phi (U+03D5). It is still not - recommended to use this glyph instead of the normal (looped) form; - - * Several new characters have been added, including the Latin letter EZH - (U+01B7/U+0292) and capital Es Zett for German (U+1E9E). There are - some new combining marks as well; - - * I used to consider the breve accent should always take the typically - Cyrillic form when used after Cyrillic letters. However this assumption - seems to be wrong: the specific form of the diacritic is actually - an attribute of just three letters, i. e. "short i" (Russian etc.), - "Short u" (Byelorussian) and "zhe with breve" (Moldavian). - -2007 July 14 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.1 (not released) - - * Added Latin letters OPEN E and OPEN O, requested by an African user; - - * New glyph for ampersand in the upright font; - - * Redesigned Polish ogonek and Czech comma-like caron; - - * More work on italic Greek letters; - - * General contour cleanup for some glyphs. - -2007 January 22 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.0 - - * Added the WHITE SQUARE (U+25A1) character; - - * Minor corrections in the fonts themselves and in the PDF manual. - -2006 December 12 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.9 - - * Added a few more Latin Extended-B characters, yogh and wynn in - particular (thanks to Peter Baker for the valuable information on the - design of the letter yogh he provided). I also have implemented - uppercase and lowercase versions of the insular "g". Thus Old - Standard is now suitable for typesetting texts in Old and Middle - English. - - * Added Hebrew aleph and a few Fraktur characters, useful for critical - apparatus, especially in Bible/New Testament editions. - - * Implemented a full set of standard f-ligatures, present in most - OpenType fonts. - - * Andrew Panov has convinced me to implement a set of mathematical - glyphs, designed in the style of traditional Russian math - typesetting. These glyphs are currently available only in the regular - version of the font. - - * A PDF manual, explaining various features of the font, is now - available. - - * Greek sampi (both uppercase and lowercase) has been redesigned. - - * Implemented Greek lunate epsilon and reversed lunate epsilon (the - design doesn't match the remaining Greek letters though). Thus all - Unicode slots intended for "alternate" and mathematical Greek glyphs - are now covered. - - * A few improvements in the TTF instructions for the regular font - (drop-out control has been enabled). - - * Several minor corrections in the OpenType layouts. - -2006 October 01 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.8 - - * Implemented a set of TrueType instructions (hints) for the regular - font (italics are still unhinted). I would like to thank Peter Baker - for his excellent (and extremely well documented) xgridfit program - (http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net), which provides a good Open Source - solution for gridfitting, or "hinting," TrueType fonts. - - * The TrueType version of the regular font now has a separate source - file (OldStandard.ttf.sfd) with quadratic splines. - - * Changed the naming convention for the TrueType version: the font name - now has a "TT" suffix, so that both TTF and OTF versions can be - installed on the same system simultaneously. - - * Added a few Latin Extended-B characters, useful mainly for - germanists, in particular "b" with bar, "o" with ogonek and hwair. - Also I have corrected shapes of lowercase eth and thorn. Thus Old - Standard now includes all characters necessary for representing Old - Icelandic texts and Gothic transliteration. Still more characters - (the most important of them being uppercase and lowercase yogh) are - needed for a proper support of Old/Middle English. - - * As usual, a few minor bugs have been corrected. - -2006 June 09 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.7 - - * Added OpenType layouts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Special - attention has been paid to correct shaping and positioning of - diacritical marks. - - * Minor corrections of glyph shapes. - -2006 May 08 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.6 - - * License changed to the SIL Open Font License. - - * Added Greek glyphs, including those in the U+1F00--U+1FFF "Greek - Extended" Unicode range. - - * Ukrainian and Serbian Cyrillic glyphs were redesigned in order to - bring them into a better correspondance with real examples of - the early 20th century printing. - - * The standard mathematical operation signs were redesigned and - significantly enlarged, so that now their implementation contradicts - to the contemporary standards, but better corresponds to the European - tradition of math typesetting. - - * Several additional math characters, needed to provide a full coverage - for the Mac Roman encoding, have been added. - - * Ancient Greek metrical characters (U+23D1--U+23D9) have been - implemented. - - * A TTF version is released in addition to OpenType-CFF fonts. It has - no hinting at all, so don't complain for bad screen rendering! - -2006 Feb 14 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.2 - - * First public release. - -Acknowledgements ----------------- -(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications -be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description -(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.) - -N: Alexey Kryukov -E: alexios@thessalonica.org.ru -W: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru -D: Original Designer of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs - -For more information please visit the Fonts page on Thessalonica's -website: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html. - -Or send an email to <alexios at thessalonica dot org dot ru>. |