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On 05/24/2014 06:20 AM, Hudson Flávio Vieira Mateus wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> Good morning.<br>
> <br>
> I'm looking for a specific font project, but I cannot find
it. The<br>
> font is /Old Standard/, by Alexey Kryukov. I need this font
for a<br>
> work of mine.<br>
> <br>
> The project site indicated<br>
> (<<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html">http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html</a><br>
>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html"><http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/oldstandard.html></a>>) is
out several<br>
> days already. And how I've seen that TeX group have it, I
resolve to<br>
> contact you to many forwarding, if possible.<br>
> </span><br>
Thessalonica is not usually associated with TeX, because Alexey
Kryukov has written it as a uno extension, and concentrated on
making it work with the applications of LibreOffice. (There is
apparently a difference, which he maintains is a programing defect,
between LibreOffice and OpenOffice 4 as distributed with the
sponsorship of Oracle.) <br>
<br>
Old Standard is a rather heavy-footed workhorse of a font, and many
other genuinely well-populated Unicode fonts work with Thessalonica
as well. Thessalonica is what makes LibreOffice outshine anything
else for someone like me who has to use multiple scripts in the same
manuscript. But it is designed as a word-processor, not as a
typesetting system. (I contributed the Ibycus Greek encoding to
Thessalonica myself.) I tend to prefer either the latest Palatino
Linotype or GR New Times Roman for their rich<br>
population of most of the needed pages of Unicode. <br>
<br>
I have not been aware of Kryukov's interest in TeX, and certainly I
have only seen his name attached to his first-rate work on
LibreOffice. I could hardly live without it these days. Moreover,
Kryukov's syntax for the uno extensions of LibreOffice is splendidly
clear and consistent. But TeX?????<br>
<br>
I see no reason why TeX would be unable to use Old Standard in any
place where TeX could use another well-made Unicode font, with the
proviso that one is probably restricted to TrueType for it. I just
cannot think quite why. <br>
<br>
Pierre MacKay<br>
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