Egyptological Hieroglyphs Version 0.6
The changes in version 0.6 were considerable with support of shading added as well support for cadrat groups, although this remains somewhat primitive. The plugin now includes an initial version of the User Guide as well. I also changed the HTML markup for cartouches so the closure is now much better. There’s still a 1px [more…]
By Kate
Rotor Version 1.1
Rotating and flipping images is computationally heavy and I didn’t want anybody deep-linking into our rotated images. To prevent that I have adjusted the code of the .php which serves the rotated images to add an extra 45 degree rotation if a rotated image is deep-linked. I could block display entirely but until I am [more…]
By Kate
Versioning – Release Notes
Commencing with version 0.5 of the Egyptological Hieroglyphs plugin code this series of notes has been established to provide version release notes. Version 0.5 includes the following substantive functionality: Separators: -!*/ and spaces Rotations: \r0 to \r3 plus \t1 to \t3 and /r+ve Output types hiero (default), color, html, raw, help and version Scaling – [more…]
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Building a Hieroglyph Parser – Intro
Somehow online Egyptology sites manage without hieroglyphs, or struggle to laboriously add them by hand. It is a labour too as most alternatives mean that each glyph has to be uploaded as a separate image and then laid out manually. Even then those who leave comments cannot add hieroglyphs and, in a Web 2.0 world, [more…]
By Kate