Alternatives to JSesh
There are a number of other hieroglyphic wordprocessors. Many of them are not distributed anymore, but when they still have a web site, I provide a link.
A detailled review of Hieroglyphic text processor can be found in Gozzoli, Roberto B. 2013. ‘Hieroglyphic Text Processors, Manuel de Codage, Unicode, and Lexicography.’ In Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology, edited by Jean Winand, Stéphane Polis, and Todd Gillen. Presses Universitaires de Liège.
- Winglyph
- successor to Glyph, written by Hans van den Berg for the CCER (Center for Computer-aided Egyptological Research); was used for many epoch-making publications, such as the Chapelles Osiriennes de Dendera;
- Macscribe
- the first editor written for Mac, written by Éric Aubourg; was also distributed by the CCER ;
- Inscribe
- developped by Bob Richmond (Saqqarah Technology) ; was very well integrated with early versions of Windows, through Object Linking and Embedding, a technology which allowed easy communication between software.
- Webglyph
- an improved online port of the original Glyph software, by its authors, Ed J.P.M. de Moel and Jan Buurman ; you can either request a personnal code or (according to the mail in the EEF list use code guest both as login and password.
- VisualGlyph
- a facsimile oriented editor, which allows one to mix hieroglyphs and drawing.
- IGlyph
- successor to VisualGlyph By Ivan Subotic and Günther Lapp.
- Got
- developped Michel Guay et Charles Bédard, with very nice XVIIIth dynasty glyphs, along with a rich documentation;
- SignWriter
- a recent and active system by Phil Robinson; couple a hieroglyphic editor with a dictionary.
Mark-Jan Nederhof's softwares
Mark-Jan is a professor of computer science, and a respected expert in Natural Language Processing.
He has created a number of very interesting tools for egyptian and hieroglyphs. They probably lack a bit of user-friendly polish if you want to create data for them, but they are very powerful.
- RES, the Revised Encoding Scheme, is an alternative to the Manuel de Codage, with very powerful operators. He has a wonderful javascript implementation.
- PhilologEg is a text database in RES format, which is able to display parallel texts in a very nice way. Hidden in the code of PhilologEg, you will find an OCR for ancient egyptian.
- https://github.com/nederhof : his github projects, notably:
- hocr, a more recent ocr;
- isut, a software to deal with hieratic texts;
- new Gardiner font a full rendering of Unicode 5.2 hieroglyphs, plus most of Unicode 16 signs.