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Hi, is anyone has succesfully install hierotex under Miktex 2.9 ? When
googling, some was succeded with miktex 2.5 that is difficult to get.
Any idea ? Thanks in advance.

Henry

Dear all,

As you have probably noticed, I tend not to use this mailing list a lot, even for sending new version announcement. JSesh has got a website with forums, so the list itself is not really useful. 
Therefore I prefer to close it.

Best regards,

Serge Rosmorduc

Dear all,

I have just released a new version of JSesh.

The main new features are:

* New families from S. Thomas : "M" and "O" families are now complete.
* Improved palette. I need to write a documentation for it, but you can 
now combine searches, e.g:
    * you can find signs in the "A" family which are both "armed" and 
"seated"
    * you can filter the displayed signs to find one which contains a 
given glyph.

* I have entered some data about glyphs to eases searches for some 
families. Basic information is now available for "A", "B", "C", "D", 
"E", "F" and "G" families. Families "B" and "C" are fully functionnal as 
far as the "palette" is concerned (i.e. you can search any "B" or "C" 
sign in terms of its part, like any "B" sign wich contains "H6".

* It is now possible to use Window's "Enhanced Metafile" format for 
exporting graphics from JSesh, both as a files and in cut and paste. 
Beware: Mac OS X has only a partial support of EMF, so EMF exports are 
probably not a good idea on the Mac, nor if you want to send a word file 
to a mac user.

Best regards,

S. Rosmorduc

Hello,

version 2.7a of JSesh is now available at 
http://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/download

This version fixes a problem with cut and paste which occurred at least 
in the latest updates of Word for Mac 2004: the hieroglyphs ended up way 
too large.

Besides, there is again a number of new families from S. Thomas: The "D" 
and "I" families are complete now.
(Hence JSesh has now an almost complete coverage for the families : A, 
B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L).

Best regards,

S. Rosmorduc

Hello all,

This version contains minor technical fixes:
* cartouches width works correctly
* encapsulated postscript export

And *lots* of new signs by S. Thomas: complete A, E and F families.

Easy access to the glyphs SVG, for those who need new signs
(see
https://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/tutorials/combining_signs
to learn how to take advantage of this.
)

Best regards,

S. Rosmorduc

Hello,

I have just released JSesh version 2.4.15.

You can download it from JSesh site (which has been considerably 
reworked, with even a video tutorial in French, and more to come):
see http://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/download

The most notable improvement of 2.4.15 is the addition of a new 
software: the sign info editor. It allows one to add information on 
signs, for instance transliteration and sign description. I hope that 
some JSesh user with enough expertise in Egyptology will take advantage 
of this to improve the existing data.

Meanwhile, this also means that the JSesh palette has been improved.

Other changes:

* Now, '-' can be used while typing signs transliterations for entering 
signs. For instance, you can type "Hwt-Hr".

* Corrected interpretation of \r and \t when importing winglyph text.

* Corrected some bugs in TTF fonts import (well, some of those bugs are due
to the various versions of Java.

* We now include the MDC source file in the PDF output of JSesh as a comment
(in the Subject field). This is a trick, but it will allows us, for 
instance, to
save and reload PDF files created by JSesh, which is a requirement of 
the IFAO.

Best regards,

S. Rosmorduc

Hello,

Version 2.4.13, which fixes a critical bug in 2.4.12, has just been 
released on sourceforge.

Best regards,

Serge Rosmorduc

Hello,

I have just been noticed that there is a very serious bug in 2.4.12. 
Basically, the "save" function doesn't work and will delete the file it 
intended to save.

The bug is already fixed in version 2.4.13 which I am going to release. 
But please, meanwhile don't save anything with 2.4.12.

Best regards,

S. Rosmorduc

Hello,

I have just uploaded a new JSesh version: 2.4.12

what's new:
* Improvement on mac os X. Menus are supposed to be real mac menus (if 
you use a recent enough version of Java),
 which means you can create your own shortcuts, for instance. JSesh 
files have now their  own icon, and can be double-clicked. On the other 
hand, the "hieroglyphs" menu is now somehow slow.  in a forthcoming 
version, it will be possible to swich modes between "java" menus and 
"mac" menus.

* Improvement in the palette. variants, translitteration, parts of...

* It is now possible to document sign values in an XML file (a more 
user-friendly interface is forthcoming),
and so to add information about "new" signs.

* Improved reading of macscribe files.

* a few new signs, an hymn to Thot, etc.

An important remark on the palette:
    I have created a framework for adding informations about signs, 
which the palette uses. However,
the information itself is far from complete. If you are interested, 
completing this information is something that people with a reasonable 
knowledge of Egyptian (and currently not too afraid of dealing with XML 
files) can do. Volunteer are sought :-)

Best regards,

Serge Rosmorduc

Hello,

Version 2.4.8 fixes a bug in 2.4.

Cut and paste under windows did work with openoffice, but not with 
microsoft word. Now it works with both.

Best regards,

S. Rosmorduc

Hello,

I have just published a new JSesh version, my free hieroglyphic text 
editor. The main new features are:
   * lots of new hieroglyphs (around 300 gods or so :) thanks to M. S. 
Thomas
   * a palette for selecting the signs (currently quite simple).
   * better handling of pictures on the mac (well, this was already 
available in some non official versions).
   * some new texts (mostly Papyri from Deir el Medineh, thanks to P. 
Cassonnet).

The download site is :
   http://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/download/

Best regards,

S. Rosmorduc

Hello,

Version 2.3.6 of JSesh is available. The most notable change is the 
addition of a SVG export module, which can be used to export your JSesh 
texts to inkscape, for instance. This is very interesting for 
professional uses, as inkscape can itself export to formats used by 
professionnal typesetters, like EPS or adobe illustrator (with the 
later, beware of page formats).

regards,

S. Rosmorduc

Hello,
I have just released JSesh 2.3.2, which should be available on sourceforge.

It's not a revolution, but it contains a number of improvement and bug 
fixes.

New features:

* Improved ligature system. The font designer has now more control on the 
way a ligature will behave.

* Much improved layout for groups with high signs and low broad signs. Those signs
will tend to fill the available space, giving a better result especially in columns.

* bug fix for horizontal grouping (used to destroy complex ligatures).

* Moved the documentation to docbook, to solve the problem of navigation in the documentation,
and to allow the creation of a pdf version thereof.

* Cleaned up the extended signs. Some of them did not have the right code.

* The user can now specify the encoding to use when reading or writing a MdC file.

* Texts from the old Tksesh database are now included in the JSesh distribution, along with a few new ones, 
  among which Israel Stela and the Kamose Stela.

* Small improvement when including signs from a font: the same scaling is retained for all signs.

* bug fixed in PDF layout: Cartouches are now aligned correctly in PDF output.

Regards,

S. Rosmorduc

Hello,

The latest version of JSesh with cut-and-paste ability has just been 
released. It should be available shortly on sourceforge.

Thanks to those who have sent bug reports about the preliminary versions.

Regards,

S. Rosmorduc

pd a =E9crit :

> JSesh has always positioned short glyphs standing by themselves in a =20
> cadrat on the baseline.  (Most modern texts I have seen make them=20
> float  centered between the top line and the base line.  I went=20
> looking for  original images of horizontal writing but have not found=20
> enough to  determine which way is authentic.
>
> Is there a particular reason you use this non-symmetric convention?
>
> -Paul Dickson

In fact, you can meet both conventions in texts. JSesh's convention is=20
more faithfull to the usual rendering of texts whose original is in=20
hieratic; on the other hand, texts whose original is in hieroglyphs=20
would usually center signs (but then, "lone small signs" are unusual in=20
actual hieroglyphic texts, for cadrats would rather be filled).

You can however switch from "signs on baselines" to centered signs in=20
the "View" menu. I know it's probably not the better place, but I  will=20
correct this when I introduce a "text  layout" menu.
(It might also be subject to a preference settings).  As an aside, if=20
you feel some of the menu entries might get better names in english, or=20
if you want to correct my english in the documentations, feel free to do=20
so (probably by private mails, as most of those messages would be of=20
little interest for the generic JSesh mailing list reader).

Regards,

S. Rosmorduc

JSesh has always positioned short glyphs standing by themselves in a  
cadrat on the baseline.  (Most modern texts I have seen make them float  
centered between the top line and the base line.  I went looking for  
original images of horizontal writing but have not found enough to  
determine which way is authentic.

Is there a particular reason you use this non-symmetric convention?

-Paul Dickson

Neat.  Using OpenOffice on Windows it works perfectly.  I was happy to see  
that Latin text just gets inserted as text, so mixed text flows properly.   
Great for typing up my study notes.

I would prefer the default mode to be separate images per cadrat myself so  
that the word processor can wrap the hieroglyphics just like everything  
else.  The downside is if I need to change the size it is too tedious  
doing each one.  As long as you offer the choice it will be ok, and even  
then once you give some control over the size I may not need to do even  
that.  I should have the option of specifying a point size for the height  
of an A1 glyph.

-Paul

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:22:41 -0500, ROSMORDUC Serge  
<ro...@iu...> wrote:

> I'm glad to announce that I have found how to do a decent copy-and-paste  
> system from JSesh to Word and similar programs.

Hello,

This is the very first post in the JSesh mailing list. I'm glad to 
announce that I have found how to do a decent copy-and-paste system from 
JSesh to Word and similar programs.

You will find an experimental version at the address
http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/JSesh-install-2.1alpha0temp0.jar

It's mainly there to test the functionality, possibly with different 
systems. Simply select an area,
copy, and paste in word or openoffice.

I would be particularly interested to know if it works well with Mac OS 
X and macs.

Known issues are
    * long cut and paste produce quite large pictures, which seem to be 
too much for some softwares (especially on older systems).

    * the screen rendering on old versions of word is ugly, because it's 
not antialiased. The printed rendering is nice, though.

    * the final version should let the user chose his own cadrat size. 
Currently, it's too small. In fact, I intend to propose an easy to 
select choice of at least two sizes (text, footnote).

Questions are :
    * Do you like the current rendering system, with one picture for 
each cadrat, or would you prefer larger pictures, spanning multiple 
cadrats (whole lines, for instance). In a way, I'm thinking of proposing 
both, but what default would you prefer ?

Regards,

S. Rosmorduc

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