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A few signs from the tomb of Sethy the 1st

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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.

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Thanks, M. Banham !

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François Neveu's "The Language of Ramesses".

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François Neveu's very good grammar, "La langue des Ramsès", has recently been translated into english, under the title "The Language of Ramesses".

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New signs

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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...

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Latest Openoffice improvement

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.

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Latest Openoffice improvement

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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.

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Installing JSesh on recent Macintoshes

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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...

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Brill font and Egyptology

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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...

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Publications récentes

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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...

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LibreOffice 3.4.3, Mac OS X and JSesh

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...

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New signs by S. Thomas

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...

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