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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 +--------- + +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. + +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 + + * Licensing 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>. |