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@@ -43,72 +43,126 @@ lettertype of the early 20th century.
ChangeLog
---------
+2011 April 30 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.2
-2008 November 24 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.0.2
-
- * My TTF files somehow got autoinstructed with wrong settings. This
- resulted into inconsistent bearings under certain PPEM's.
-
-2008 November 23 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.0.1
-
- * Oops. GPOS kerning was broken in 2.0.
-
- * If the same set of rules is shared by several features, then
- use just one lookup registered for more than one feature to store them.
+ * 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
+ * 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
+
+ * 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
+ 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"
+
+ * 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
+
+ * 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
@@ -116,21 +170,21 @@ ChangeLog
"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
@@ -144,28 +198,28 @@ ChangeLog
* 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
@@ -178,11 +232,11 @@ ChangeLog
* 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
@@ -198,38 +252,38 @@ ChangeLog
* 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
- * Licensing changed to the SIL Open Font License.
-
+ * 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
----------------
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