JSesh News

A new transliteration font

Boris Jegorovic has kindly sent me a package with two nice fonts which cover the "new" code for the Egyptological yod :

Thanks a lot!

If you know of other useful fonts, and think they should be listed on the transliteration page, feel free to mail me.

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News about the github archive for JSesh

JSesh sources are now distributed through github. You are able to follow the latest development there, and for the most computer-savvy among you, to compile the files for yourself.

This has been going on for a while. But I have very recently decided to take advantage of the issue management sy...

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Installing JSesh on Recent MacOSX Machines

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.

Now, stores are very convenient. They give a simple way to install new software, and allow indepen...

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About JSesh, Java and Security

Occasionally, people will express concerns about the use of Java in JSesh. I would like to dispel a few legitimate fears here.

At some point, the web was crawling with warnings about security concerns in Java. But why ?

Java is a programming language and environment. By itself, a Java software c...

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Two notable book publications with JSesh

In the beginning of JSesh, I had a page about "books published with JSesh". Now that JSesh is more or less the mainstream editor for Hieroglyphic texts, it would be quite an overwelming task - and this website is not meant to be the OEB :-)

This being said, I am very proud to see JSesh used exte...

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JSesh 7.3.2 is out !

I have just released JSesh 7.3.2

All the details are in the release note !

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JSesh 7.3.1 is out !

I have just released JSesh 7.3.1

All the details are in the release note !

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Installing JSesh on Linux

A number of people have asked me how to install JSesh on Ubuntu. As Linux users are a bit more expert than usual Windows and Mac Users, and as I had to revert to very specific formats for those two systems, the current "generic" distribution (that is, linux distribution) is very raw.

Anyway, runn...

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A90

glyphs encoding

This small text is the first in a list about the problems of hieroglyphic encoding in practice (actually, it could qualify as the second post on the subject, as my previous post about sign D396D396 could qualify too).

I was recently asked a question about the A90 A90 sign in the JSesh library...

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About L16

glyphs encoding

I'm currently having discussions about a cleanup of the fonts, and the question of L16 has (re)appeared.

Back in 2008-2009, when M. Thomas developped most of the JSesh fonts, we had a lot of discussions about the Manuel de Codage and the like. Comparing the 1988 MdC with the Winglyph fonts, I wondered a lot about the way L16 looked in both of them.

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