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Quoting JSesh

Quoting JSesh:

On the various pages about JSesh, I have misspelled the URL for JSesh documentation. Some !@𓀑 of lowlife internet scum took advantage of this to create a website with the misspelt URL, hosting malware on it.

So, the correct way to quote JSesh is : Rosmorduc, Serge. (2014). JSes...

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Kuban Stela

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The Grenoble Museum hosts the Kuban stela, a beautiful monument of Ramses II. Their website allows detailed examination of the text, and also has a nice translation of the stela by Bernard Mathieu. See it here

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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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