JSesh News
In my enthusiasm for fixing fonts for JSesh 7.9, I made a choice which is perhaps a bit too hasty, palaeographically speaking.
The E1 sign is a bit problematic in Gardiner fonts. There should probably be two different signs; one is the bull, kꜣ; the other is cattle (mnmn.t, ꞽḥw). In hieroglyph...
JSesh 7.9 is now available for download!
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.
When preparing JSesh 7.9 distribution, a number of questions were raised about the sphinx signs E151 E151 (and variants).
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...
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...
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...
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.
Stores are very convenient. They give a simple way to install new software, and allow independant...
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)....
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...