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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/oldstandard/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/oldstandard/README index 9a5049bb335..460b2eac6ef 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/oldstandard/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/oldstandard/README @@ -1,13 +1,60 @@ -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. |