JSesh News
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.
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.
From Mac OS X Mountain Lion onward, new Mac OS X machines don't include Java.
Currently, JSesh expects java to be where it used to be on old machines, which means you must get it from here : http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572 (before installing JSesh).
Note that I have experimented, and found...
updated on 2023/10/03
Brill has published a font family for its publications. I admit I haven't looked closely at its legal limitations, but anyway, it's a nice step in the right direction: it has full support of Egyptian translitteration, including "Egyptological yod", made with i and U+0486 (as...
J'ai reçu récemment, envoyés par les auteurs :
Sylvie Cauville & Mohammed Ibrahim Ali, Philæ, itinéraire du visiteur, Peeters 2013
Guide très détaillé du temple de Philæ (328 pages !), avec de nombreuses photographies, traductions et commentaires d'inscriptions hiéroglyphiques choisies, donnée...
I have just downloaded LibreOffice 3.4.3 (one of the versions of OpenOffice). And I am very pleased.
At last, the hieroglyphs are antialiased.
Copy/Paste using RTF with EMF as graphical format works well, and allows to paste back the hieroglyphs into JSesh. The only problem (If I insist on fin...
Serge Thomas has kindly sent me a number of improved versions of JSesh signs. There are two new collections.
The first one contains lots of signs in all families, and the second one contains an improved "I" family.
Go to http://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/fr/signlib/showCatalog/2
and look at co...
JSesh documentation will move from the main site to a secondary one : https://jseshdoc.qenherkhopeshef.org. This way, I intend to involve more people, so that translations of the documentation are available.
Currently, well, I need to write the documentation of JSesh 5.0 in the first place...
If you are fearless, and want to try buggy, incomplete software, and have a look at what the next JSesh will be, you can download it here
I have just published a Unicode font for hieroglyphs. I have also created a file which might be of use to programmers, with an equivalences between the Manuel de Codage and the current Unicode encoding.
- see the font and transliteration page