JSesh News
I'm happy to announce a new version of the "packtranslit" bundle.
Transliteration and Unicode : we all need to transliterate text, but we used to have all sorts of problems with fonts. I have updated my "keyboards", which you can use to type transliteration in an easy way: download
Along those...
JSesh currently uses a nice library, called Quaqua, to be more Mac-OSX compatible... However, Quaqua development seems to be over (the Java 8 version is still listed as "unstable", so I'm not going to use it).
Jsesh is still functional, but has lost a bit of user-friendliness. For instance, use of...
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
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...
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.
Thanks, M. Banham !
François Neveu's very good grammar, "La langue des Ramsès", has recently been translated into english, under the title "The Language of Ramesses".
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...
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.
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.
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...