JSesh Update - Version 2.8.1
Serj Rosmorduc has updated his hieroglyphic software JSesh to eradicate some bugs, improve usability, update fonts and call for volunteers to help develop the glyph description tool.
Here is his email to the Ancient Egyptian Language group:
Dear all,
Version 2.8.1 of JSesh, my free hieroglyphic text editor, is available.
It can be found as usual on :
http://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/What’s new ?
* IMPORTANT BUG FIX: the scale used in “edited groups” was wrong since august 2008 (I typed 10000 instead of 1000 when cleaning up the drawingSpecification system). Old groups did not print well as a result of this. Of course, with this bug fix,
you will need to re-arrange groups in text written with the faulty systems.* Usability improvement: cut and paste of right-to-left text or text in column did give strange results with the default settings. I have fixed this, and introduced a new option in the preferences: “respect layout”, which is “on” by default. When it’s “off”, JSesh uses left-to-right text. A new “copy” mode has been introduced: wysiwyg. Note that right-to-left cut and paste will probably be improved at some time, because the left-to-right default is not very “international” (it doesn’t mix well with arabic or hebrew texts, for instance).
* And, once more, a whole new family of font have been updated. JSesh has now a complete “N” family from S. Thomas. I have also worked on the glyphs description, and the “man and its occupation” family is on its way. More to come
While I’m saying this, I will had that JSesh includes a tool to describe glyphs, which can be found in the “bin” folder. Anyone with a reasonable knowledge of hieroglyphs can help… The glyph description data can only be created “by hand”, and it takes time. It’s also a task that can be easily shared by many people. So, consider this as a call to volunteers
Best regards,
S. Rosmorduc
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