The distinctive Mongolian script can now be typed in Windows and Macintosh applications using LaserMongolian fonts. This product contains four TrueType® and Type 1 hinted fonts: MongolLS (for Outer Mongolian) and MongolInLS (for Inner Mongolian), and MongolRoman, and MongolRomanVert (both Latin scripts for use with the Mongolian scripts). Mongolian normally is typed top-to-bottom, left-to-right. But the Windows and Macintosh operating systems and applications are left-to-right, top-to-bottom environments. We have created well-balanced and -connected fonts that allow the user to type left-to-right (or right to left), top-to-bottom and then rotate the finished text 90° counterclockwise to be read top-to-bottom, left-to-right as our sample shows.

The LaserMongolian fonts are ASCII-compatible between the Windows and Macintosh versions of the product. File transfer between platforms can be made in RTF (Rich Text Format) or text-only format, with no search and replace operations necessary to clean up the file.

LaserMongolian for Windows

In Windows, type text in reverse order (left-to-right), or use the included Word for Windows macro for typing right to left one line at a time in the US (English) version of Word for Windows. Then rotate the page 90º counterclockwise to read properly. Alternatively, export the text to a page-layout or graphics program and rotate the text on your page.

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.

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TransCyrillic for Windows, for writing Mongolian in Cyrillic, is only $50 when purchased with LaserMongolian for Windows.

Sample

LaserMongolian for Macintosh

In Macintosh applications, type text left-to-right, or proper right to left text entry and line wrap are supported when used with Nisus Writer. Enter text right to left and then rotate the page 90º counterclockwise to read properly. In Nisus, portions of Mongolian text can be rotated and inserted in your Nisus document as a graphic, allowing you to have horizontal and vertical text in the same document. Alternatively, export the text to a page-layout or graphics program and rotate the text in that program, allowing you to have horizontal and vertical text in that document.

System Requirements: The font may be typed using the US keyboard, or with an included keyboard resource that installs into OS X 10.2 and above or System 7.1-9.x. (The alternate keyboard does not support OS X 10.0 or 10.1, which do not allow installation of alternate keyboard resources. Owners of OS X 10.0 or 10.1 must use the US keyboard.) The alternate input method uses the AsiaScript® scripting system, which installs into Classic Mode of OS X and into System 7.1-9.x. (AsiaScript has been tested in OS X 10.3 Classic Mode.) The product includes a User's Manual, keyboard resource, and keyboard layout charts.

Cost: US$ 99.95 Order

TransCyrillic, for writing Mongolian in Cyrillic, is only $50 when purchased with LaserMongolian.

Sample

LaserMongolian Sample