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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 +--------- + +2020 December 18 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.6 + + * Added 2nd pointer to Alexey Kryukov's archived webpage. + + * Added and updated FONTLOG.txt (this file). + + * New file: OldStandard.fontspec. Slanted shapes for regular and bold are + now available through the 'FakeSlant' feature of fontspec. + + * Updated naming schemes in BoldItalic. Thanks to Jontxo Reig for + testing. + +2020 February 24 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.5 + + * Updated documentation and makefile. + + * Better g caron. + + * Added missing small capitals Ā, Ī and Ū. + + * Added font table. + + * Reset all hinting information and instructions. + + * Removed duplicate c2sc and smcp rules. + + * Added small capitals for all Greek accented letters. + +2019 July 26 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.4a + + * Reshaped macron, acute, grave and j in BoldItalic. + +2019 July 25 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.4 + + * Added auto-generated BoldItalic. + +2019 July 24 (Robert Alessi) Version 2.3 (1.0 in the current git repo) + + * Fixed missing direction in U+2023. + + * fixed missing control points, wrong coordinates and directions + in OldStandardT-Italic.sfd. + + * Added g caron. + + * Added small capitals in Regular (French, German, Italian, + Spanish, Basic Russian and Arabic DMG). + + * Make +ss06 work if beta is preceded by a vowel with an accute + accent taken from the Greek Extended Unicode block. + +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>. + +N: Robert Alessi +E: alessi@robertalessi.net +W: http://www.robertalessi.net +D: Current maintainer of Old Standard |