JSesh News
Pr. Joshua Aaron Roberson, from the University of Memphis, has kindly shared with the JSesh community a collection with some of the glyphs he has created mainly for his book A Lexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom1, and also his work on the Book of the Earth.
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.
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...
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...
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...
The team working on hieroglyphs and unicode is working hard, and Andrew Glass, who is a specialist of OpenTypes, has produced a very nice font which can handle the new Unicode operators.
You will find it in Andrew Glass's font tools project.
If you want the font, you can download it from this...
A few years ago, we were asked to produce a number of signs, mainly from the Old Kingdom.
M. Serge P. Thomas (mostly) and Serge Rosmorduc (for a small part) have therefore produced versions of these signs. Furthermore, in addition to those, M. Thomas has sent a set of interesting revisions of sign...