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Leo Gentilini has kindly written an italian translation of the JSesh Documentation
JSesh was used to decorate the coffin of Princess “Ahmanet” in the 2017 film The Mummy starring Sofia Boutella and Tom Cruise.
The coffin can be found in the Turin Museum... 🤔
In my enthusiasm for fixing fonts for JSesh 7.9, I made a choice which is perhaps a bit too hasty, palaeographically speaking.
The E1 sign is a bit problematic in Gardiner fonts. There should probably be two different signs; one is the bull, kꜣ; the other is cattle (mnmn.t, ꞽḥw). In hieroglyph...
JSesh 7.9 is now available for download!
M. Nico Pollone has kindly sent to me quite a few texts to be added to the JSesh library. They will be part of the next JSesh release. But meanwhile you can find them in the MDCText github archive.
When preparing JSesh 7.9 distribution, a number of questions were raised about the sphinx signs E151 E151 (and variants).
I'm currently preparing a new JSesh release, with few new functionalities, but some new texts and glyphs.
In particular, I'm integrating parts of Peter Dils' comments. Only a part, mainly because of my limited human resources... I also need time to code JSesh, Ramses, teach computing, and do a b...
Dr. Peter Dils, from Leipzig, sent me (a long time ago) a list of signs for which the Hieroglyphica had significantly different shapes from the signs in JSesh.
Some of those differences hint about problems in the way we encode hieroglyphs - basically, upon what should be encoded or not. But othe...
The JSesh fonts evolve from time to time. I will try to release catalogues like the one for Jsesh 7.5.5 I have released at Zenodo.
But catalogue don't allow one to track evolution in the individual signs in an easy way.
So, I have automated the process of sign comparison. If you select the S...
Recent versions of Mac OS X (and Windows 10) suppose that new applications are installed through a “store”.
Apple has pionneered in this domain with the Apple Store since the creation of the IPhone.
Stores are very convenient. They give a simple way to install new software, and allow independant...