Create ANSEL-encoded files
in regular Windows or Macintosh applications

LaserANSEL enables the user to create files in regular Windows and Macintosh applications which may be transferred to bibliographic software that requires standard ANSEL encoding (e.g., MARC). The ANSEL font (often called the "MARC" font) contains the Latin alphabet of ASCII plus characters and diacritics conforming to the American National Standard Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use. For greater flexibility of use, Linguist's Software has added diacritics for uppercase letters and a number of special letter combinations.

The ANSEL font does not require the use of specialized MARC software, but will work in all Windows and Macintosh applications that give the user access to the TrueType and/or Type 1 fonts installed in the system.

The ANSEL font is ASCII-compatible between the Windows and Macintosh versions of the product. File transfer between platforms using ANSEL may be made in RTF (Rich Text Format) or in text-only format.

The ANSEL font is available in a Times®-style (serif font) and in a Courier®-style (monowidth font), both in TrueType and Type 1 formats, in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles.

Languages Supported by the ANSEL font

The ANSEL font supports the alphabets of at least the following languages:

The ANSEL font also supports romanized (transliterated) forms of at least the following languages:

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LaserANSEL for Windows

The fonts install into Microsoft® Windows XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98, 95, or 3.1x, and work with all Windows XP-, 2000-, NT-, Me-, 98-, 95- and 3.1x-compatible applications that allow the user to select fonts from a font menu. The Type 1 fonts require Adobe Type Manager® in Windows Me/98/95/3.1. The product includes a User's Manual, keyboard layout chart(s), and Character Code Tables showing every character in the font(s). The included Keyboard Switcher (keyboard driver) allows access to four characters per key (instead of the normal two) and alternate keyboard layouts. The fonts alone (without Keyboard Switcher) will install into Linux, but Linux users must provide alternate keyboard input for characters in the extended character set. These fonts will print to any printer at the highest quality allowed by your printer.

Cost: US$ 99.95 for either LaserANSEL or LaserANSEL Mono; $149.95 for LaserANSEL Pro, which includes both typestyles. Order

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LaserANSEL for Macintosh

System Requirements: Includes a keyboard resource that installs into OS X 10.2 and above or System 7.1-9.x. (This product does not support OS X 10.0 or 10.1, which do not allow installation of alternate keyboard resources.) The product includes a User's Manual, a keyboard resource, and keyboard layout chart(s).

Cost: US$ 99.95 for either LaserANSEL or LaserANSEL Mono; $149.95 for LaserANSEL Pro, which includes both typestyles. Order

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LaserANSEL Samples

All samples except the last one are in the Times-style font (LaserANSEL), but the monowidth font (LaserANSEL Mono) has the same character set and arrangement.

The ANSEL character set consists of Basic ANSEL, which is regular English characters plus:

For greater flexibility of use, Linguist's Software has added diacritics for uppercase letters and a number of special pre-composed letter combinations including the following:

Samples of diacritics plus letter combinations (the combinations in parentheses have been adjusted with the minispace included in the font, or by subscripting):

Samples with multiple diacritics (with the adjusted characters in parentheses):

Sample of LaserANSEL Mono (monowidth typestyle). LaserANSEL Mono has the same character set and arrangement as LaserANSEL.

Here's what others are saying about LaserANSEL:

"The fonts are wonderful."
anonymous e-mail received May 21, 2000