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JSesh Documentation

version 2.4.15b

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Overview of the JSesh Window
3. Editing texts
Mouse Editing
Setting a cursor position
Inserting signs with menus and palette
Selecting a zone
Adding a sign chosen from a menu
Grouping signs
Ligatures
Complex ligatures
Editing groups
Keyboard editing
Entering hieroglyphs
Grouping signs
Exempli gratia
Direct manuel de codage entry
4. Graphical export
Copy/Paste
Graphical copy and paste : configuration
Cut and paste limitations
Printing
Exporting PDF
Exporting Bitmap Pictures
Exporting RTF
Exporting WMF
5. Tips and tricks on hieroglyphic text encoding
6. Extending the sign list
Introduction
Importing new glyphs
Choosing a directory for your signs
Actual sign insertion
Creating a sign with Inkscape
Introduction
A few notions about vector drawing
Creating a background image
Draw the outline
Fit the outline
Working on details
Choosing the right line width
Uniting everything
Adding other details
Final comments
Advanced Informations in Inkscape
Introduction
Ligature zones
Ligature zones gravity
A. The current sign description system
Starting the sign description editor
Editing the sign descriptions
The main window
The tag creation window
The menus
Contributing your sign description to JSesh
Technical information on the sign description file
B. Sign description DTD
C. The Manuel de codage

List of Figures

2.1. the jsesh window
3.1. Sign Palette
3.2. Group editor
3.3. Manuel de codage field in use
4.1. Cut and Paste Preferences
6.1. Creating a Directory
6.2. The Directory is Selected
6.3. New signs importing interface
6.4. Inserting the duck sign as UG1M2N0
6.5. Ptah figure in Beit el Wali
6.6. The A17 sign with its two ligature zones
6.7. Zone Properties
A.1. The Main Sign Info Editor Window
A.2. The Transliteration Editor
A.3. The parts of sign list
A.4. The variant editor
A.5. The Tag list editor
A.6. The Tag list editor
A.7. The Tag Creation Window
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