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-This is the README for the OldStandard package, version 2.2.
+This is the README for the OldStandard package, version 2.4a.
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.
+designed by Alexey Kryukov and revised bt Robert Alessi,
+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
@@ -20,9 +20,30 @@ lettertype still has at least two advantages:
+ 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)
+ appropriate than any contemporary (e.g. Times-based)
designs.
+In comparison to previous releases of *Old Standard*, this release
+includes a bold italic, new letters and some corrections:
+
+1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
+ styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals,
+ which were missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
+ century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
+ *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
+ current headings and in some books proper names.
+2. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
+ ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character
+ missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted
+ standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2]
+3. Additionally, this release corrects the `+ss06` feature provided by
+ *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish between
+ regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta
+ (`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature worked in most cases
+ with the previous release of *Old Standard*. However, it failed if
+ the beta is preceded by a vowel with an acute accent taken from the
+ *Greek extended* Unicode block.
+
To install this package on a TDS-compliant
TeX system download the file
"tex-archive"/install/fonts/oldstandard.tds.zip where the
@@ -38,9 +59,9 @@ To use, add
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.
+Italic, Bold and BoldItalic styles are available. Font
+encodings supported are OT1, T1, TS1, LY1, LGR and T2A/B/C.
+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
@@ -57,4 +78,12 @@ 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.
+cs.queensu.ca), Nikola Lecic and Robert Alessi.
+
+Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements
+to Robert Alessi:
+
+ * email: <alessi@robertalessi.net>
+ * website: <http://www.robertalessi.net/>
+ * development: <http://git.robertalessi.net/oldstandard>
+ * comments, feature requests, bug reports: <https://gitlab.com/ralessi/oldstandard/issues>