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-Old Standard is supposed to reproduce the actual printing style of the
-early 20th century, reviving a specific type of Modern (classicist)
-style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various editions of
-the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost completely abandoned
-later.
-
-It supports typesetting of Old and Middle English, Old Icelandic,
-Cyrillic (with historical characters, extensions for Old Slavonic and
-localised forms), Gothic transliterations, critical editions of
-Classical Greek and Latin, and many more.
-
-Old Standard works with TeX engines that directly support OpenType
-features, such as XeTeX and LuaTeX.
+This is the README for the OldStandard package, version 2.2.
+
+This package provides the Old Standard family of fonts
+designed by Alexey Kryukov, in both OpenType and Type1
+formats, with support for both traditional and modern LaTeX
+processors.
+
+Old Standard reproduces a specific type of Modern
+(classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in
+various editions of the late 19th and early 20th century,
+but almost completely abandoned later. However, this
+lettertype still has at least two advantages:
+
+ + it can be considered a good choice for typesetting
+ scientific papers, especially in social and humanitarian
+ sciences, as its specific features are closely
+ associated in people's eyes with old books they learned
+ on;
+
+ + the most beautiful examples of Greek and Cyrillic
+ lettertypes were all based on the classicist style,
+ so for those scripts, "Modern" fonts are much more
+ appropriate than any contemporary (e. g. Times-based)
+ designs.
+
+To install this package on a TDS-compliant
+TeX system download the file
+"tex-archive"/install/fonts/oldstandard.tds.zip where the
+preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirrors.ctan.org.
+Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree,
+likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the
+file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map
+files by enabling the Map file OldStandard.map.
+
+To use, add
+
+\usepackage{OldStandard}
+
+to the preamble of your document. This will activate
+OldStandard as the main (serifed) text font. Regular,
+Italic and Bold styles are available. Font encodings
+supported are OT1, T1, LY1 and TS1. The only figure style is
+tabular-lining.
+
+LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users may also use OldStandard.sty but
+should read the oldstand-manual document for information
+on taking advantage of OpenType features. If they prefer
+type1 fonts or wish to avoid fontspec they may use the type1
+option.
+
+Options scaled=<number> or scale=<number> may be used to
+scale the fonts.
+
+The fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
+version 1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory.
+The type1 versions were created using fontforge. The LaTeX
+support files were created using autoinst and are licensed
+under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License.
+The maintainers of this package are Bob Tennent (rdt at
+cs.queensu.ca) and Nikola Lecic.