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LaserTamil in Unicode™ for Windows® or
Macintosh®
provides professional-quality Unicode-encoded fonts in TrueType® OpenType® format, in plain,
bold, italic, and bold-italic, for
typing Tamil, plus English and other western European Latin languages. The
TamilLSU™ and TamilSansU™
fonts include the complete Tamil section of the Unicode Standard,
providing fonts that are fully compatible with other Unicode-encoded Tamil
fonts. LaserTamil in
Unicode
includes a phonetic keyboard layout that provides four characters per key
(instead of the normal two) for easy input of Tamil. The keyboard layout
places the Tamil consonants, wherever possible, according to the sound
of the English keys, and takes advantage of the OpenType layout features
built into the fonts for logical, intuitive input. Consonant/vowel
ligatures form automatically, and vowels position automatically as you
type. For example:
LaserTamil in Unicode is available in two typefaces. The TamilLSU font
is a serif font and the TamilSansU font is a sans serif font. The typefaces
can be purchased individually or together as LaserTamil Professional in
Unicode.
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The fonts are provided in plain (regular), bold, italic,
and bold-italic:
TamilLSU
TamilSansU
In addition, each of the above fonts is provided with alternate forms of
some characters. This sample shows the different forms of certain
characters in the TamilLSU and TamilLSUAlt serif fonts.
The TamilSansU and TamilSansUAlt fonts have the same alternate forms, but
in a sans serif typeface.
Following are additional samples in the TamilLSU font.
Isolated Forms of Vowels
Compound Forms of Vowels
The special letter Aydham (pronounced 'akh')
Tamil numerals
Tamil Ligatures
Text Samples
John 3:16 in the TamilLSU and TamilLSUAlt fonts:
The same Scripture sample is shown here in the TamilSansU and
TamilSansUAlt sans serif fonts:
LaserTamil in Unicode is available for both
Windows and Macintosh.
 LaserTamil™ in Unicode™ for
Windows® includes two keyboard layouts (one for
Tamil and one for Latin languages) that provide
four characters per key (instead of the normal two) for easy, intuitive
input of all supported languages using Microsoft Word 2007 or
OpenOffice.org 3.2, in Windows
7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. The
Tamil keyboard layout takes advantage of the OpenType layout features built into
the fonts for logical, intuitive input. System Requirements:
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| Requires Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP. |
| Requires Windows complex script Supplemental
Language Support in Windows XP. This requires your Windows
XP installation CD. We show you how to install this feature
as part of setup, but you must have your Windows XP installation CD
or the Recovery CD provided by your computer manufacturer. (This feature is built into Windows
7 and Vista and does
not need to be installed.) |
| This product will not work in any earlier version of
Windows (2000/NT/Me/98/95/3.x). |
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| Applications
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Requires Microsoft Word 2007 (or another component
of Office 2007) or
OpenOffice.org 3.2
or newer (available for free download from
OpenOffice.org). |
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No earlier version of Word is fully
compatible. Word 2003 has been tested and supports all
features built into the font except the Tamil letter SHA
consonant-vowel ligatures. The User's Manual includes
several work-arounds allowing Word 2003 to be used, but with
some inconvenience. |
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OpenOffice.org 3.1 and earlier is not
compatible. You must upgrade to version 3.2 or newer,
available for free
download. |
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It is not known if InDesign CS4 supports
the OpenType features of the font. (InDesign CS4 supports
LaserHebrewU,
LaserGujaratiU, and
LaserHindi SanskritU if World Tools or ScribeDOOR is
installed and used during editing.) If you are successful
using LaserTamilU with this application please let us know! |
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QuarkXPress 8.02 does not support
LaserTamil in Unicode. |
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The fonts will print to any Windows printer at the highest quality allowed by your
printer. |
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These fonts are compatible with
the Macintosh version of LaserTamil in Unicode. No
conversion of files is necessary when transferring files
between Word 2007 or
OpenOffice.org 3.2 for
Windows and Mellel for Macintosh, if LaserTamil in Unicode fonts are installed on both systems.
(Save files as Rich Text Format documents before sending
them to the Macintosh.)
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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 installed.
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Cost: US$ 99.95
for either LaserTamil or LaserTamil Sans in Unicode for Windows or
US$ 149.95 for LaserTamil Professional in
Unicode for Windows (both typefaces)
Order
(Please be sure you read the System Requirements
before you order. This font is not compatible with the non-Unicode
LaserTamil for Windows fonts.)
Do you need to upgrade? Check the
current version number and a Release History.
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 LaserTamil
in Unicode for Macintosh
LaserTamil in Unicode for Macintosh includes two software
keyboard layouts (one for Tamil and one for all supported Latin languages) that provide four characters per
key for easy input of Tamil and Latin languages using Mellel in Mac OS X
10.4 or
higher. The Tamil keyboard layout takes advantage of the OpenType layout features
built into the fonts for logical, intuitive input.
Macintosh System Requirements:
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Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. |
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| Applications
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Requires Mellel,
also available from Linguist's Software. |
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Microsoft Word is
Unicode-compliant, but does not support the OpenType features of these fonts.
It will not work with LaserTamil in Unicode for Macintosh.
(If you must work in Word see LaserTamil for
Macintosh.) |
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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 installed. |
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These fonts are compatible with the Windows
version of LaserTamil in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary
when transferring files between Mellel for Macintosh and Word 2007 or
OpenOffice.org 3.2 for
Windows, if LaserTamil in Unicode fonts are installed on both systems. |
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Keyboard Layouts
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Two
keyboard layouts are included for typing Tamil and all
supported Latin languages. The keyboard layout places
the Tamil consonants, wherever possible, according to the
sound of the English keys, that is, they are arranged phonetically
according to the English keyboard. |
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View the
keyboard layouts in this pop-up window. |
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Cost: US$ 99.95
for either LaserTamil or LaserTamil Sans in Unicode for Macintosh or
US$ 149.95 for LaserTamil Professional in
Unicode for Macintosh (both typefaces)
Order
(Please be sure you read the System
Requirements before you order. This font is not compatible with the
non-Unicode LaserTamil for Macintosh
fonts.)
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For non-Unicode Tamil fonts see LaserTamil.
These two non-Unicode products are not compatible
with the LaserTamil in Unicode fonts shown on this page. However, if you must
publish your work in software that is not Unicode-compatible and
OpenType-compatible then you must
use the non-Unicode products available at these two links.
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LaserTamil in Unicode
