For this year's product announcements, see What's New. For other product announcements, see What's New-1996, What's New-1997,  What's New-1998, What's New-1999, What's New-2000, What's New-2001, and What's New-2003.

A condensed Helvetica®-style has been added to TransSlavic for Windows. The TransSlavic font includes the complete character set of more than 130 Roman-based European, African, American Indian, and other languages. The Windows version of the product now has six typestyles available, including the new TransSlavicSansCon. View font samples on the product page. Current TransSlavic for Windows owners may purchase additional typestyles, including the new TransSlavicSansCon for half price ($50 each) when they upgrade the product they already own. Released December 4, 2002.

Four new typestyles have been added to the TransCyrillic® product line. TransCyrillic supports 39 major current Cyrillic languages and the product is now available in seven typestyles: Chancery-style, Courier®-style, Garamond®-style, Helvetica®-style, a condensed Helvetica®-style, Palatino®-style, and Times®-style. All are supplied in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic (except TransCyrillicChan, which is plain only.) See font samples for each typeface. In addition, a new Kazakh keyboard layout has been added to the product. Current TransCyrillic owners may purchase additional typestyles for half price ($50 each) when they upgrade the product they already own. The Windows fonts were released December 10, 2002, and the Macintosh fonts were released December 31, 2002.

A new uncial typestyle has been added to our Unicode-encoded Greek fonts. LaserGreek in Unicode - UncialLSU has been released for Windows. This new font matches SymbolGreekU in typestyle and character set, but the lowercase letters are in the uncial style. It is provided in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic. Released November 19, 2002.

Easier cross-platform compatibility is provided with TranslitSBL, a new font added to Semitic Transliterator. TranslitSBL provides all the special characters for SBL-style transliteration of Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Greek in a single font. It provides full cross-platform compatibility between the Macintosh and Windows using the regular Microsoft Word format. Users may simply transfer files between platforms with no conversion necessary (if the font is installed on both platforms.) Released November 18, 2002, and available with the Times-style product only.

A new font has been added to LaserGreek. The NominaSacraLS font is an uncial font which provides the abbreviations for holy names and various position overbars and underbars in order to make titles and numbers. It also includes various positions of the ai ligature for use with kappa, theta, and tau. Be sure to see the font sample. Released November 13, 2002.

LaserHebrew has now been released in a Unicode-encoded version. We are pleased to announce the release of LaserHebrew in Unicode for Windows, containing the beautiful NewJerusalemU Unicode-encoded TrueType font for Biblical and modern Hebrew and Yiddish. The font closely matches the shapes and weights of the characters and accents in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Hebrew Scriptures/Tanach. It contains all vowel points, accents, dageshim, and diacritical marks occurring in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, plus other diacritical symbols and the additional characters needed for Yiddish. The font also includes the Latin 1 (code page 1252) and Extended Latin character sets providing English and other western languages such as French and German, and supports the modern Hebrew code page 1255. Users can type right to left with proper word wrap and full justification. The font includes OpenType layout features which provide automatic positioning of characters and diacritics as you type. Because the font makes use of the OpenType shaping engine (Uniscribe) built into Windows XP and Windows 2000 to form the characters, every letter shape and diacritic is properly positioned. The LaserHebrew in Unicode font is distinctive in that it also includes all of the vowel points, accents, cantillation marks, and other diacritics occurring in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. This even includes the rarely used multi-vowel/accent combinations necessary to type the Ten Commandments.  Released October 22, 2002.

The Hebrew Scriptures are also available for use with the Unicode-encoded font in LaserHebrew in Unicode for Windows (see above). Hebrew Scriptures in Unicode for Windows includes the most recent text of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, authorized by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. The files are formatted in the NewJerusalemU Unicode-encoded font (part of LaserHebrew in Unicode for Windows, sold separately), which includes all vowels, accents and cantillation marks, and other diacritical marks used in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. The Hebrew Scriptures text is provided in Word 2002 for Windows files. Any portion of the Hebrew Scriptures can be copied and pasted into other documents. Released October 23, 2002.

LaserVietnamese in Unicode for Windows was released on July 25, 2002. Our world-famous LaserVietnamese fonts are now available in a Unicode-encoded format. The fonts, available in the same five typestyles as our older, non-Unicode LaserVietnamese, have pre-composed vowels with diacritics supporting Vietnamese. The product also includes three different keyboard layouts, two for Vietnamese and one for English and other western Latin languages.

TransRoman Medieval, previously released for Windows, is now available for the Macintosh. The two fonts in this product allow scholars to reproduce medieval Italian manuscripts. The fonts contain the Latin alphabet plus all the special characters and diacritics necessary to reproduce medieval Italian manuscripts. The Macintosh version was released May 31, 2002.

The name of LaserPushtu was changed to LaserPashto to conform with common usage. At the same time three new characters were added to the fonts in the product. LaserPashto is available both for Windows and Macintosh. The change was made April 11, 2002.

Now scholars can reproduce medieval Italian manuscripts using our TransRoman Medieval for Windows fonts. The two fonts in this product contain the Latin alphabet plus all the special characters and diacritics necessary to allow scholars to reproduce medieval Italian manuscripts. The product was released February 28, 2002.

We are excited about our newest product, LaserJicarilla, available for both Windows and Macintosh. LaserJicarilla provides TrueType® and Type-1 fonts in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic weights, in 5 typestyles: Times®-, Helvetica®-, Garamond®-, Palatino®- and Chancery-styles. The LaserJicarilla character set contains all the characters and diacritics necessary to type Jicarilla, Keres (both Western Keres Pueblo and Eastern Keres Pueblo), plus English and Spanish. The LaserJicarilla keyboard uses four regular keys to provide access to all the special characters and diacritics used in the supported languages. The fonts are cross-platform convertible between Windows and Macintosh computers in the same way as are standard Windows and Macintosh fonts.

We are excited about a brand product, LaserUto-Aztecan, available for both Windows and Macintosh. LaserUto-Aztecan provides TrueType® and Type-1 fonts in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic weights, in both Times®-style and Palatino®-style, containing all the characters and diacritics necessary to type ancient Aztec, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Comanche, Cora, Cupeno, Gabrielino, Hopi, Huichol, Kawaiisu, Kitanemuk, Luiseno, Mono, Northern Paiute, Panamint, Papago, Pima, Pipil, Serrano, Shoshoni, Southern Paiute, Tarahumara, Tepecano, Tepehuan, Tubatulabal, Ute, and Yaqui. No special keyboard resources are needed. In both the Windows and Macintosh fonts you type the special Uto-Aztecan characters on the shifted keys. The unshifted keystroke produces lowercase standard Latin letters. The fonts are cross-platform convertible between Windows and Macintosh computers in the same way as are standard Windows and Macintosh fonts.

We are pleased to announce the release of LaserQuinault for both Windows and Macintosh computers. LaserQuinault, available in both Times®-style and Helvetica®-style, provides the characters and special diacritics for typing the Native American Quinault language, plus English. The product is cross-platform convertible between Windows and Macintosh computers.

We are pleased to announce the release of LaserTanana for Windows. Previously available for the Macintosh, LaserTanana is now also available for Windows computers. This font contains characters for the Tanana language plus ten other Athapaskan languages: Hän, Gwich'in, Kaska, Northern Tutchone, Southern Tutchone, Tagish, Tanacross, Lower Tanana, Upper Tanana, Tahltan, and Tlingit, as well as French, German, Spanish, and other Roman-based languages. LaserTanana is available in Times®-, Helvetica®-, Palatino®-, Garamond-, and Chancery-styles.

We are pleased to announce the release of LaserLatvian for both Macintosh and Windows. LaserLatvian includes the Latin alphabet plus all the special characters and diacritics needed to type the Latvian language. The font also covers Norwegian and English. The product is available in six typestyles and is completely cross-platform compatible between Macintosh and Windows computers. Type your file on one platform, transfer your file to the other platform, and it will open with no conversion necessary.

A new upgrade of LaserNavajo was released January 15, 2002. The modified fonts now include the N and G letters with underline, for use with additional Apache languages. LaserNavajo is available in five typestyles. Files typed with either the Windows or Macintosh platform version of LaserNavajo can be exchanged with users on the other platform with no conversion of files necessary. To view font samples please see the LaserNavajo product page.

New fonts in the LaserGreek in Unicode for Windows product series were released January 2, 2002. There now are six sets of Unicode-encoded TrueType fonts for Biblical and classical (polytonic) and modern (monotonic) Greek in the LaserGreek in Unicode for Windows series. For the first time, the world-famous LaserGreek fonts are available in a Unicode-encoded version for use with Unicode-aware Windows Operating Systems and applications. These fonts include all standard accents, breathing marks, iota subscripts and diereses used in Biblical and classical Greek. They are unique in that they also include the Nestle-Aland, UBS, Leiden, and many TLG text-critical symbols and sigla.

For this year's product announcements, see What's New. For other product announcements, see What's New-1996, What's New-1997,  What's New-1998, What's New-1999, What's New-2000, What's New-2001, and What's New-2003.