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 Jsesh
http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/JSesh/
The goal of the JSesh project is to propose a free Java toolbox to promote the creation of Egyptological software. It converts Manuel de Codage text into hieroglyphic font.
Tksesh
http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/archives/TKSESH/IEXII/tksesh.html
In the developers own words. Tksesh is “a multiplatform editor, database and dictionary software. Tksesh is both intended to be a toolkit to build applications for the philologist and an example of such application. The core of tksesh is a hieroglyphic editor which understands "Manuel de codage" encodings. The edited texts can be saved in a database, and referenced by the dictionary system, via hyperlinks. The dictionary can handle complex definitions by multiple authors. Most of the text in the dictionary has precise meaning, not only for the reader, but also for the computer. This allows automated treatments and possibly complex searches. An important feature of the dictionary is that it can contain references to the text database, in a readable way, and that clicking on these pops up the referenced text. Of course, exhaustive searches in the database text are also an option. The Tksesh system is written in the Tcl/Tk language, which is freely available for both Windows, Mac, and Unix systems, allowing it to be very portable”. Visit the site for more information and to download the application.
Data formats and software for ancient Egyptian
http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mjn/egyptian/
Explore this page to find what’s on offer - the website’s owner, Dr Mark-Jan Nederhof, is a computer scientist who has an interest in ancient languages and has brought these two fields together to provide some very interesting and useful software programmes.
SVG GlyphWriter (prototype)
http://dhost.info/glyphwriter
An online application, which is called '(SVG) GlyphWriter'. It's an online hieroglyphic text editor. It has some very useful features . For example, it's possible to reposition hieroglyphs by dragging them, and to rotate and resize individual hieroglyphs to an exact degree. The user can add hieroglyphs through a menu, and also by means of (a basic form of) Manuel de Codage code. The entire application, and its output, is based on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG is itself based on XML. It therefore has the same advantages as XML: it's open source, it's text-based, and it's exchangable with other XML-documents. One of the biggest features in my opinion is the possibility to add extra information to the resulting image, for example translation and transliteration. Prerequisites for using SVG GlyphWriter are: Internet Explorer and the free Adobe SVG Viewer-plug-in (and an internet connection).
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