LaserTamil in Unicode
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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
LaserTamil in Unicode for Windows
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 2013, 2010, 2007 or OpenOffice.org 3.2 or newer, in Windows 10, 8, 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.
Windows System Requirements:
Operating Systems- Requires Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, or XP.
- Applications
- Requires Microsoft Word 2013, 2010, or 2007 (or another component of Office) or OpenOffice.org 3.2 or newer (available for free download from OpenOffice.org).
- 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.
- OpenOffice.org 3.1 and earlier is not compatible. You must upgrade to version 3.2 or newer, available for free download.
- 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!
- QuarkXPress 8.02 does not support LaserTamil in Unicode.
- We expect LibreOffice to support LaserTamilU (because OpenOffice supports it), but LibreOffice has not been tested.
- Notes
- The fonts will print to any Windows printer at the highest quality allowed by your printer.
- These fonts are compatible with the Macintosh version of LaserTamil in Unicode. No conversion of files is necessary when transferring files between Word 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.)
- 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.
- Keyboard Layouts
- 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 (United States) keyboard layout.
- View the keyboard layout in this pop-up window.
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.
LaserTamil in Unicode for Macintosh
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 the Mellel word processor 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:
- Operating Systems
- Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
- Applications
- Requires Mellel, also available from Linguist's Software.
- 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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- Notes
- 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.
- 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 or OpenOffice.org for Windows, if LaserTamil in Unicode fonts are installed on both systems.
- Keyboard Layouts
- 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.
- View the keyboard layouts in this pop-up window.
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.)
Also Available
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.