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LaserIPA® in Unicode™ for Windows® or
Macintosh®
provides a professional-quality International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Unicode font in TrueType® OpenType® format, in plain and bold weights. The
IPA LS Uni font includes not only the standard Unicode "IPA
Extensions" characters, but also the "Spacing Modifiers" and
"Combining Diacritics" sections of the Unicode Standard. The font also
includes many letters and symbols that were once part of the IPA but are
now obsolete, and some letters and symbols that were used as IPA letters
and symbols but have never been officially adopted into the IPA. The font
also includes the Latin 1 and Extended Latin character sets providing
English and other western languages such as French and German. LaserIPA in
Unicode
includes keyboard layouts that provide four characters per key
(instead of the normal two) for easy, intuitive input of the IPA symbols
and diacritics, and of English and other western Latin-based
languages supported by the font. The keyboard layouts take advantage of the OpenType layout
features built into the font for the most logical, intuitive input
possible. Input order is letter, accent,
accent. The letter with its associated diacritics is
placed in your document automatically as you type, with all diacritics perfectly
positioned.
Languages covered by LaserIPA in Unicode:
 | Afrikaans |
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| English |
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| Indonesian |
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| Spanish |
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| Basque |
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| Finnish |
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| IPA |
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| Swedish |
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| Catalan |
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| French |
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| Italian |
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plus additional |
| Danish |
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| German |
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| Norwegian |
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languages
covered |
| Dutch |
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| Icelandic |
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| Portuguese |
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by code page
1252 |
LaserIPA in Unicode is available for both
Windows and Macintosh.
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 LaserIPA® in Unicode™ for
Windows® includes a keyboard layout that provides
four characters per key (instead of the normal two) for easy, intuitive
input of the IPA symbols and diacritics using Microsoft Word 2007, Word 2003,
or OpenOffice.org 3.0 in Windows
Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 SP3. It also includes a keyboard layout for typing
English and other western Latin-based languages supported by the font. The
keyboard layouts take advantage of the OpenType layout features built into
the fonts for the most logical, intuitive input possible. Input order is
letter, accent, accent. The letter with its associated diacritics is placed
in your document automatically as you type, with all diacritics perfectly
positioned. System Requirements:
| Operating Systems
| Windows Vista, XP or 2000 Service Pack 3 or later is required. |
| 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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Microsoft Word 2007, Word 2003, or
OpenOffice.org 3.0 is required. Other components
of Office 2007 and 2003 are also compatible, except PowerPoint 2003 is
not compatible. OpenOffice.org can be downloaded free
from
www.openoffice.org. |
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No earlier version of Word (2002/2000/97/95/6)
is compatible. WordPerfect is not compatible. |
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QuarkXPress and PageMaker are not
compatible. |
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These fonts include OpenType tables for
proper positioning of characters and diacritics. Some
applications will support certain OpenType layout features,
but may not necessarily support the features required to
type the International Phonetic Alphabet. Only the above
mentioned applications are known to support these fonts and
keyboards. If you discover any other applications that do
fully support LaserIPA in Unicode please let us know. |
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 (included in
Microsoft Office 2003) is not compatible with
LaserIPA 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 LaserIPA
fonts. (Earlier versions of PowerPoint have not been tested
for compatibility.) |
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| Notes
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The font will print to any Windows printer at the highest quality allowed by your
printer.
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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 into 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
LaserIPA to LaserIPAU: The LaserIPA
Converter is available to convert LaserIPA
(ASCII-encoded) Word files to the LaserIPAU fonts.
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Cost: US$ 99.95 Order
(Be sure you read the System Requirements
before you order.)
See font samples and the keyboard layout charts
below.
Do you need to upgrade? Check the
current version number and a Release History.
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 LaserIPA
in Unicode for Macintosh
LaserIPA in Unicode for Macintosh includes two software
keyboard layouts for use in Mac OS X 10.2 or higher. One has the IPA characters on the regular keyboard with the English US keyboard
available by pressing the caps lock key. The other keyboard has the English
US keyboard as the regular keyboard with the IPA keyboard available by
pressing the caps lock key. With either keyboard typing order is letter,
accent, accent. The
letter with its associated accents
is built up automatically as you type, with all accents perfectly
positioned.
Macintosh System Requirements:
| Operating Systems
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Requires Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or higher. |
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| Applications
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Requires Mellel 1.8
or higher,
also available from Linguist's Software. |
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Microsoft Word 2004 is
Unicode-compliant, but does not support the OpenType features of the
IPA LS Uni font. If you use only single, non-accented IPA letters
from the IPA LS Uni font you can work in Word. If your project
includes overstriking diacritics from the IPA LS Uni font you must
use Mellel to correctly display and
print the text. These diacritics will not position correctly in
Word. |
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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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Notes
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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. 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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These fonts are compatible with the Windows
version of LaserIPA in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary
when transferring files to Windows if your applications are fully
Unicode-aware and LaserIPA in Unicode fonts are installed on both systems. |
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Converting files from LaserIPA to
LaserIPAU: The LaserIPA Converter is
available to convert LaserIPA (ASCII-encoded) Word files to the
LaserIPAU fonts. |
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Cost: US$ 99.95 Order
(Be sure you read the System
Requirements before you order.)
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Samples:
Characters in the IPA Extensions section of the Unicode Standard
Characters in the Spacing Modifiers section of the Unicode Standard
Characters in the Combining Diacritical Marks section of the Unicode
Standard
On our keyboard charts (for
Windows or
Macintosh) these diacritics are shown with a dotted
circle, showing their relationship to the base character. You simply type
the base character then the diacritics you wish to add.
Additional Special and Custom Characters
Typing Diacritical Marks
It is easy to add diacritical marks. Just type the base letter followed
by the diacritics. For example:
With some combinations it is possible to add up to five diacritical
marks to a base letter:
It is easy to produce many features, such as continuous overlines and
underlines:
For a non-Unicode version of this font see LaserIPA.
To convert Word documents typed with the non-Unicode LaserIPA fonts, see
the LaserIPA Converter.
Here's what others are saying about LaserIPA in Unicode:
"I am enjoying my new products very much. The IPALSU font is really impressive.
The new IPA LS Uni keyboard layout is very nice, because I can hit the
caps-lock key to go back and forth between a standard English QWERTY
keyboard layout and the IPS LS Uni keyboard layout. That one key stroke saves me
a lot of time. The keyboard layout for the IPA is also already saving me a lot
of time in typing diacritical marks, because I do not have to open and close the
Character Palette on my Macintosh like I have been doing. Also I now have new
characters and new glyphs I can work with. See the attached document as an
example of what I have learned already. I sent a copy of that document to my
friend Don Potter to show him what could be done with the Laser IPA Unicode font
with the Mellel word processor. After he looked at it, then he responded back to
me with a four word e-mail, 'WOW! I am speechless.' The Mellel word processor is
also very good, I am still learning what it can do. It does things I can't do
in Nisus Writer Pro 1.3."
Earl Eugene Roth, Jr., Phoenix, AZ
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LaserIPA in Unicode
