[B-Greek] Fwd: [XeTeX] Old Standard v. 1.0 [Font] released
John McChesney-Young
panis at pacbell.net
Thu Feb 1 22:18:10 EST 2007
I thought some here might be interested in this new Unicode font:
>---------- Forwarded message [by permission] ----------
>From: Alexej Kryukov
>Date: Jan 31, 2007 3:04 PM
>Subject: [XeTeX] Old Standard v. 1.0 released
>To: XeTeX <xetex at tug.org>
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>sorry for promoting my own project, but I would like to inform this
>community about new multilingual OpenType font compatible with XeTeX.
>The font is called Old Standard and can be downloaded from my web site
>at http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html. It is released under
>the SIL Open Font License.
>
>Old Standard is my attempt to provide a high quality font, suitable for
>classical, biblical and medieval studies as well as for general-purpose
>typesetting in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic script. It is
>based on so-called "Modern" type, commonly used in the late 19th and
>early 20th centuries, but almost completely forgotten later.
>
>There is also a PDF manual, where I have placed examples of texts
>in various languages typeset with Old Standard. It is worth pointing
>out, that this manual was prepared with XeTeX. I would like to
>thank Jonathan and other developers for an excellent tool, as using
>XeTeX greatly simplified my work, allowing me to easily demonstrate
>virtually all OpenType features supported by the font.
>
>--
>Regards,
>Alexey Kryukov <anagnost {at} yandex {dot} ru>
>
>Moscow State University
>Historical Faculty
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I personally find the font very attractive. It has Basic Latin;
Latin-1 Supplement; Latin Extended-A and a good handful of Latin
Extended-B, including y-macron and some of the less-common Old
English letters; polytonic Greek (including archaic letters like
koppa, stigma, digamma, etc.); Cyrillic; and a few glyphs in the
Private Use Area, all in regular and italic shapes. It does not
include Hebrew (except aleph), nor Coptic, Syriac, etc.
Those curious about XeTeX will find information here:
http://scripts.sil.org/xetex
John
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