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LaserArmenian® in Unicode™
provides a professional-quality, Unicode-encoded Armenian font
(ArmenianLSU™) in TrueType® format,
for typing the Armenian language, for transliterating Armenian into the
Latin alphabet, and for typing English and west European (Latin 1)
languages. The font is provided in normal (plain), bold,
italic, and bold-italic forms. Included keyboard
software provides four intuitive input methods. The keyboards support
the Eastern Armenian standard, the Western Armenian standard, a phonetic
Armenian keyboard layout (based on the US keyboard), plus an English keyboard
providing access to the transliteration
symbols needed to transliterate Armenian.
Be sure you
read the System
Requirements for Windows or for
Macintosh before ordering. Order
ArmenianLSU Font Samples
Because Armenian text is normally slanted the Italic and Bold-Italic forms
of the font are shown first.
Normal (vertical) and Bold forms of the ArmenianLSU font
Armenian punctuation and accents
The ArmenianLSU font includes
Abbreviation bars.
(They are demonstrated here over vowels—not over
actual abbreviations—to illustrate bar height.)
The ArmenianLSU font supports several transliteration methods:
Hübschmann-Meillet transliteration method
Library of Congress transliteration method
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 LaserArmenian
in Unicode for Windows
LaserArmenian in Unicode for Windows includes four keyboard layouts that
provide four-characters-per-key input in Windows 7, Vista, XP, and 2000 SP3. The keyboards support 1) the Eastern Armenian
standard, 2) the Western Armenian standard, 3) a phonetic Armenian
keyboard layout (based on the US keyboard),
and 4) an English keyboard providing access to the transliteration
symbols needed to transliterate Armenian. Windows System Requirements:
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Requires Windows 7, Vista, XP, or 2000 SP3. |
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Requires Windows complex script Supplemental
Language Support in Windows XP and 2000. This requires your Windows
XP or 2000 installation CD. We show you how to install this feature
as part of setup. (This feature is built into Windows 7 and Vista and does
not need to be installed.) |
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This product will not work in any earlier version of
Windows (NT/Me/98/95/3.x). |
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| Applications
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Any Unicode-compatible application, such as Microsoft Word
2010, 2007, 2003, 2002,
2000, or 97 is compatible. Adobe®
InDesign® and QuarkXPress 7.0 and newer are compatible. (Microsoft PowerPoint
2003 is not compatible.) |
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Microsoft Office 2010, 2007 or Office 2003 (Word
2010, 2007
or 2003) is required to benefit from the OpenType layout features
built into the fonts. These features provide automatic positioning
of abbreviation overbars, and automatic positioning of the Armenian
hyphen. In all other Unicode-compatible applications the
abbreviation overbars must be inserted using a feature such as
Word's Insert Symbol feature (one character at a time), and the
Armenian hyphen may need to be positioned manually. The User's
Manual describes how to do these steps, but they are automatic in
Word 2010, 2007 and 2003. |
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Older, non-Unicode applications such as Word 95 (Word 7) and Word 6 will
not work with these fonts. Corel WordPerfect (any version)
and Lotus Word Pro (any version) will not work with these fonts. |
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 (included in Microsoft
Office 2003) is not compatible with LaserArmenian in Unicode
for Windows. All text is changed to the Arial font, whether typed
with the keyboard, input using Insert Symbol, or pasted from Word
using the Windows clipboard. PowerPoint users should type their text
in Word or another Unicode-compatible application, and save the text
as a graphic for import into PowerPoint. Users can also use WordArt
to create their text. To do this in PowerPoint go to Insert,
Picture, WordArt, and type your text, formatting it as desired.
Alternatively, users can type directly into PowerPoint using our
non-Unicode LaserArmenian fonts. (Earlier
versions of PowerPoint have not been tested for compatibility with
LaserArmenian in Unicode.) |
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These fonts are compatible with the
Macintosh version of LaserArmenian in Unicode. No conversion of files is
necessary when transferring files to a Macintosh if your applications
are fully Unicode-aware and compatible fonts are installed on both
systems. |
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Printer: The fonts will print to any Windows printer at the highest quality allowed by your
printer. |
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Documentation: All documentation,
including a User's
Manual, and Keyboard Layout Charts (showing placement of the
characters on the keys), is in Adobe Acrobat™ PDF
format, and is installed to the Windows Start menu for easy access. Users may view the documentation on screen
or print it, using
Acrobat
Reader, available free online if you do not already have it. |
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Converting files from LaserArmenian
to LaserArmenianU: The LaserArmenian Converter
will soon be available to convert LaserArmenian (ASCII-encoded) Word files to
the LaserArmenianU fonts. |
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Cost: US$ 99.95
Order
Do you need to upgrade?
Check the current version number and a Release History.
Samples
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 LaserArmenian in
Unicode for Macintosh
LaserArmenian in Unicode for Macintosh includes four keyboard layouts for
use in Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. The keyboards support 1) the Eastern
Armenian standard, 2) the Western Armenian standard, 3) a phonetic
Armenian keyboard layout (based on the US keyboard), and 4) an English
keyboard providing access to the transliteration symbols needed to
transliterate Armenian. The ArmenianLSU font uses OpenType technology
to properly position every letter shape with the diacritics.
Macintosh System Requirements:
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Mac OS X 10.4 or higher |
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| Applications
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Any Unicode-compatible application, such as Word
or Mellel. |
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Mellel is required to
take advantage of the OpenType features of the ArmenianLSU font. |
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The only Macintosh applications we are
aware of that support Unicode at this time are Microsoft Word 2011/2008/2004,
Mellel, InDesign CS, QuarkExpress 7.0 or newer,
OpenOffice, Pages, Nisus
Writer Express, TextEdit (included with Mac OS X), Oxygen, and BBEdit. We have
only tested the fonts in Word 2004, Mellel, Nisus Writer Express and TextEdit.
(If you are aware of additional applications please let
us know.)
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Even applications that claim to be Unicode
and OpenType compliant (e.g., QuarkXPress 7.0 or InDesign) may only support a limited range of Unicode characters or
a limited set of OpenType features. Contact
Linguist's Software about compatibility questions and about the availability of
a non-Unicode version of this product that works in all applications.
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These fonts are compatible with the Windows
version of LaserArmenian in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary
when transferring files to Windows if your applications are fully
Unicode-aware and compatible fonts are installed on both systems. |
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Converting files from LaserArmenian
to LaserArmenianU: The LaserArmenian Converter
will convert LaserArmenian (ASCII-encoded) Word files to
the LaserArmenianU fonts. |
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Cost: US$ 99.95
Order
Samples
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For a non-Unicode version, available for both Windows
and Macintosh, see:
The non-Unicode font in LaserArmenian is not interchangeable with
LaserArmenian in Unicode. Both Unicode and non-Unicode fonts, including
Unicode and non-Unicode versions of LaserArmenian, may be
installed on your system (since they have different file and font names)
and may even be used in the same files. They are not, however,
interchangeable.
If your project requires you to work in software that is
not Unicode-compatible, such as QuarkXPress or PageMaker, you must use the
non-Unicode LaserArmenian font instead of
LaserArmenian in Unicode.
Do you have LaserArmenian (ASCII-encoded)
documents you
need to convert to the new Unicode-encoded fonts in LaserArmenian in Unicode?
See the LaserArmenian Converter
for a simple
solution for converting your old documents to these new fonts. (Note: It is
not possible to convert text backwards, from Unicode-encoding to the
non-Unicode-encoding of LaserArmenian.)
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LaserArmenian in Unicode
