Nouvelles de JSesh

JSesh 7.9 is available!

JSesh 7.9 is now available for download!

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New texts in the JSesh library

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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.

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The quest for a sphinx

When preparing JSesh 7.9 distribution, a number of questions were raised about the sphinx signs E151 E151 (and variants).

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A49 and variants

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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...

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Future Fixes for JSesh fonts

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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...

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Sign Differences Across JSesh Versions

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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...

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Installer JSesh sur un Mac récent en 2025

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Les versions récentes de Mac OS X (et Windows 10) supposent que les nouvelles applications soient installées par le biais d'un Store. Apple a été un pionnier dans ce domaine avec l'Apple Store, créé à l'origine pour l'IPhone.

Ces boutiques en ligne sont très pratiques. Elles fournissent un moye...

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Synoptic Edition of Book of the Dead Spell Sources from the 21st Dynasty

I'd like to feature a very fine resource created by a number of colleagues (as of today : Ivan Rodríguez López, Naglaa Ezzeldeen, Thiago Ribeiro and Emilio Bosio) about the Book of the Dead, the Synoptic Edition of Book of the Dead Spell Sources from the 21st Dynasty (STaTbS21D Project for short)....

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New texts available

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I have recently received a JSesh rendering of three interesting texts typed by Tariq Hanafi Ahmed:

  • O. DM 1057 (an very interesting love spell);
  • O. Náprstek Museum P 2027 (lively letter about family problems and request for food);
  • O. P. Leiden I 353 (caption to an amuletic text).

They...

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An OCR for Hieroglyphs

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Some resources for those among you who are not afraid of code:

Mark-Jan Nederhof has created a new OCR software for hieroglyphs. It's a research project, so you need to be prepared to face python code, but you can download it at https://github.com/nederhof/hocr.

He has already created another...

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