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+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
+---------
+
+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