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- Glyph Demo
- Glyph for Windows 1.2 DEMO
- MacScribe 2 $
- With MacScribe 2, you can typeset Egyptian hieroglyphic text with your Macintosh.
- You can input hieroglyphs either through their code, through their phonetic value, or by picking them in a sign palette. You can group them in quadrants, write in any direction, add hatches, annotations... All these features can be accessed through menus, keyboard shortcuts, and a tool palette. Power users can input directly standard encoding for the groups.
- MacScribe can export its graphics to standard page layout programs. Its export format is fully configurable, and can be Macintosh PICTs or EPS. MacScribe standard file saving format can be configured to be EPS.
- MacScribe 2 comes with a 800-sign PostScript font, in two weights. An additional 6000-sign font can be purchased separately, and contains in particular ptolemaic signs. Although it was designed mainly for PostScript printers (Laser printers and phototypesetting machines), it works with Quickdraw inkjet printers.
- MacScribe's user interface is available both in French and English.
- Glyph for Windows $
- Glyph for Windows offers the Egyptologist an easy and modern means for processing hieroglyphic texts on computer and produces a fine quality output on any kind of printer. The program's look and feel are identical to those found with other typical Windows applications. Most options and functions are accessed through pull down menus, hot-keys and dialog boxes.
- The program's main window is a code editor in which one enters the hieroglyphs in code form. These codes are simply the signs' Gardiner numbers or their phonetic value combined with some positioning codes. The entry of the codes is made easy by the presence of a hieroglyphic preview line on the bottom of the window, in which the current code line being edited can immediately be viewed in its hieroglyphic representation. A list with images of all available hieroglyphs, subdivided into categories according to the classification presented in Alan Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar, can be browsed in a separate pop-up window, which also has a small zoom window to better view the sign's details.
- A preview of the entire hieroglyphic page can be viewed in a separate window showing the exact page layout of the printer paper with all margins present.
- Printing of the text can be done on any of the many hundreds of printers supported by Windows' Print Manager. The quality of the prints is of course relative to the resolution capabilities of the printer used. On a standard laser printer the hieroglyphs will show fine and fluent lines, but also the results on matrix needle printers are admirable.
- Glyph is capable of producing texts in lines and columns, both from left-to-right and from right-to-left.
- Glyph for Windows is shipped with a basic hieroglyphic library of 850 signs, roughly the set presented in Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar. An optional Extended Library of more than 4700 signs is separately available.
- Apart from hieroglyphs, Glyph for Windows also supports the use of TrueType Latin fonts and is provided with its own transliteration and Coptic fonts.
- The program itself is equipped with several language modules. Currently English, Dutch, German, French and language modules are available. Please note that the manual is only written in English.
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