Laserhebrew® in Unicode™ for Windows®, Version 17.0
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LaserHebrew® in Unicode™ for Windows®, version 17.0 Welcome to LaserHebrew in Unicode for Windows (hereafter known as LaserHebrewU). You now have at your fingertips one or more professional quality Unicode-encoded fonts in TrueType® format for Biblical and Modern Hebrew and Yiddish. The fonts in LaserHebrewU (except for ScriptHebrewU) contain all vowel points, accents, cantillation marks, and special symbols occurring in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) and Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ), plus other diacritical symbols and the additional characters needed for Yiddish. With these fonts you may type Hebrew right to left with automatic positioning of vowels and accents. The fonts also support the Latin character set for English and other western European languages, so you may type your entire project in the same beautiful font. To switch back and forth between Hebrew and English you simply select (or toggle between) the Hebrew and English keyboard layouts. LaserHebrewU provides four keyboard layouts for easy input of all characters in the fonts: 1) the HebrewLS layout provides a phonetic layout with logical input of all Hebrew diacritics; 2) the HebrewLS Israeli layout generally follows the Microsoft® Hebrew Windows modern Hebrew layout; 3) the EnglishLS OT layout provides logical input of English and other western Latin-based languages, taking advantage of OpenType features in the fonts; and 4) the EnglishLS layout provides input of English and other western Latin-based languages using the deadkey input method. LaserHebrewU is available in five product sets. The product you have purchased contains one or more of the LaserHebrew in Unicode typestyles described below. If you have purchased one or more of the LaserHebrew in Unicode typestyles, you have the privilege for 30 days from the time of purchase to upgrade to LaserHebrew Professional in Unicode for Windows, which includes all fonts described below, for the difference between the current list price of the product you purchased and the current list price of the Professional version. Please contact the sales office for details. LaserHebrew NewJerusalemU in Unicode for Windows includes the NewJerusalemU™, NewJerusalemCU™, and NewJerusalemLU™ fonts. The NewJerusalemU font closely matches the shapes and weights of the characters in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, and it contains all vowel points, accents, cantillation marks, and special symbols occurring in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and Biblia Hebraica Quinta, plus other diacritical symbols, and the additional characters needed for Yiddish. NewJerusalemCU is like NewJerusalemU, but contains cantillation forms commonly used in Hebrew publications. NewJerusalemLU is like NewJerusalemU, but contains a “U-shaped” yerah ben yomo, the form used in the Leningrad Codex, replacing the “V-shaped” version of that character, as used in the BHS. LaserHebrew MoriahU in Unicode for Windows includes the MoriahU™ and MoriahCU™ fonts. The MoriahU font is a popular Modern Hebrew typeface that is also appropriate for representing the Hebrew Scriptures. It supports the Unicode standard for Biblical and modern Hebrew and Yiddish, and contains all vowel points, accents, cantillation marks, and special symbols occurring in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and Biblia Hebraica Quinta, plus other diacritical symbols, and the additional characters needed for Yiddish. The MoriahCU font is like MoriahU, but contains the form of cantillation marks commonly used in Hebrew publications. LaserHebrew RamahU in Unicode for Windows includes the RamahU™ and RamahCU™ fonts. The RamahU font is a popular Modern Hebrew typeface that is also appropriate for representing the Hebrew Scriptures. It supports the Unicode standard for Biblical and modern Hebrew and Yiddish, and contains all vowel points, accents, cantillation marks, and special symbols occurring in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and Biblia Hebraica Quinta, plus other diacritical symbols, and the additional characters needed for Yiddish. The RamahCU font is like RamahU, but contains the form of cantillation marks commonly used in Hebrew publications. LaserHebrew ShilohU in Unicode for Windows includes the ShilohU™ and ShilohCU™ fonts. The ShilohU font is a popular Modern Hebrew typeface that is also appropriate for representing the Hebrew Scriptures. It supports the Unicode standard for Biblical and modern Hebrew and Yiddish, and contains all vowel points, accents, cantillation marks, and special symbols occurring in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and Biblia Hebraica Quinta, plus other diacritical symbols, and the additional characters needed for Yiddish. The ShilohCU font is like ShilohU, but contains the form of cantillation marks commonly used in Hebrew publications. LaserHebrew ScriptHebrewU in Unicode for Windows includes the single ScriptHebrewU™ font. The ScriptHebrewU font is a popular Modern Hebrew typestyle representing Modern Hebrew handwriting. It supports the Unicode standard for Modern Hebrew and Yiddish (but does not support Biblical Hebrew). LaserHebrew Professional in Unicode for Windows includes all of the above fonts. All of the fonts described here also include the Latin 1 and Extended Latin character sets providing English and other western languages such as French and German. Each of these fonts is provided in plain style (normal weight) only, in TrueType® format. This document has seven (6) parts: 1. Copyright and Trademark Information 2. System Requirements 3. Registering LaserHebrewU for Windows 4. Contacting Linguist's Software 5. Uninstalling LaserHebrewU for Windows 6. LaserHebrewU for Windows Release History ________________________________________ 1. Copyright and Trademark Information a. Copyright 2002-2011 Payne Loving Trust. All rights reserved. By copyright law this software program may not be modified or copied for others, whether or not sold. b. LaserHebrew is a trademark of the Payne Loving Trust registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All rights reserved. MoriahCU, MoriahU, NewJerusalemCU, NewJerusalemLU, NewJerusalemU, RamahCU, RamahU, ShilohCU, ShilohU, and ScriptHebrewU are trademarks of the Payne Loving Trust. All rights reserved. 2. System Requirements a. Operating Systems: 1) Windows 7, Vista, XP or Windows 2000 SP3 (any language version). 2) Hebrew (complex script) supplemental language support must be installed in Windows XP and 2000, using your Microsoft Windows installation CD (we provide instructions). Supplemental language support is installed by default in Windows 7 and Vista, and no extra step is required. b. Applications: 1) Requires any component of Microsoft Office 2010, 2007, or 2003, InDesign CS4, InDesign CS4- ME, or LibreOffice 3.3, OpenOffice 3.2, Lotus Symphony 3, or another Unicode-aware and OpenType-compatible application that similarly handles Hebrew vowels and accents. 2) InDesign is compatible for vocalized text and most accented text. 3) LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and Lotus Symphony support Hebrew only in Windows 7, Vista, and XP, not in Windows 2000. a) LibreOffice is available for free download from www.libreoffice.org. b) OpenOffice is available for free download from www.openoffice.org. c) Symphony is available for free download from symphony.lotus.com. 4) Older, non-Unicode applications such as Word 95 are not compatible. No version of Adobe PageMaker or Adobe FrameMaker support Unicode-encoded fonts. At this time WordPerfect does not support Unicode-encoded OpenType Hebrew. 5) QuarkXPress 7.0 and newer is Unicode-compatible, however, QuarkXPress 8.02 has been tested with Hebrew, and is not compatible. We do not know if the ME version supports Hebrew vowels and accents. If you are successful using LaserHebrewU with QuarkXPress 7 or newer (or with the ME versions) please let us know! c. Known problems: 1) Some of your applications' default settings must be changed to avoid unexpected results when using these fonts and keyboard software. Complete instructions for doing this in Word for Windows are in the last chapter of the Setup Manual. 2) Decimal character 254 (þ–Latin small letter thorn) in the fonts can no longer be input in Microsoft Office using keyboard input, even though the letter is shown on the two EnglishLS keyboard charts in this product. Character code input (Alt+0254) also does not work in Word. At this time there are three alternative ways to input this character: 1) the user may use the Insert Symbol feature from the Word menu bar; 2) the user may type the character in WordPad and copy and paste the character into Word; or 3) the user may assign a Word shortcut to this character following the instructions given in paragraph 7, page 13, of "Customize Word Settings". Microsoft has acknowledged this problem in Word but so far has provided no fix. 3) Decimal character 253 (ý-small letter y with acute) in the fonts can no longer be input in Microsoft Office using dead key input, even though the letter is shown on the EnglishLS (dead key) keyboard chart. The keystroke does not work in Word and Character Code input (Alt+0253) also does not work in Word. Input of the ý does work using the EnglishLS OT (OpenType) keyboard input method, in applications that support the OpenType features of the fonts (see System Requirements). If you need this letter while using the EnglishLS deadkey keyboard use one of the three alternative input methods listed in the previous paragraph. 3. Registering LaserHebrewU for Windows a. If you purchased this product directly from Linguist's Software you are already