JSesh News
M. Kaan Eraslan, currently doctoral student in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, has kindly sent me a version of Sinuhe for inclusion in the JSesh library.
Thanks a lot for this welcome addition !
It will be included in the next versions of JSesh, but meanwhile I give you a link to it.
ok, there was a small problem in three of the fonts of the "pack translit". It's solved now, so, if the yod gave bad result with Word you can download the new version. It should be ok.
I'm happy to announce a new version of the "packtranslit" bundle.
Transliteration and Unicode : we all need to transliterate text, but we used to have all sorts of problems with fonts. I have updated my "keyboards", which you can use to type transliteration in an easy way: download
Along those...
JSesh currently uses a nice library, called Quaqua, to be more Mac-OSX compatible... However, Quaqua development seems to be over (the Java 8 version is still listed as "unstable", so I'm not going to use it).
Jsesh is still functional, but has lost a bit of user-friendliness. For instance, use of...
Quoting JSesh:
On the various pages about JSesh, I have misspelled the URL for JSesh documentation. Some !@𓀑 of lowlife internet scum took advantage of this to create a website with the misspelt URL, hosting malware on it.
So, the correct way to quote JSesh is : Rosmorduc, Serge. (2014). JSes...
The Grenoble Museum hosts the Kuban stela, a beautiful monument of Ramses II. Their website allows detailed examination of the text, and also has a nice translation of the stela by Bernard Mathieu. See it here
M. Stuart Ray Banham has sent me a number of signs. Here are two nice glyphs from the tomb of Sethy the 1st. They are a bit over-detailled for use in printed work, but they can be used on large-scale printing.
Thanks, M. Banham !
François Neveu's very good grammar, "La langue des Ramsès", has recently been translated into english, under the title "The Language of Ramesses".
M. Serge Thomas has just sent me a number of signs which cover the few missing codes in the Manuel de Codage. JSesh has now officially a complete coverage of the Hieroglyphica...
I have just downloaded Openoffice 4.1.0. At last, it has antialiasing on all glyphs copy/pasted by JSesh, which is a great news.