Standards-9986

Standards-9986

Transcribing Help Screen

There are lots of hieroglyphic programs on the net, but they do not create a universal code and a bunch of them are novelty programs.. writing your name or a letter to some one.

The only use I am interested is transcribing what the ancient Egyptians wrote into a digital file available to all researchers.

I doubt that many people would learn the numbers of all glyphs. It would help but is not necessary.

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(You have a utility similar to this one if you have word. It lets you place special characters in your text)

Other than memorizing the number of each glyph, a simple task like pressing the down key twice will pop up the glyph screen with a page full of glyphs with their numbers. If the glyph you are looking for is not there, press the right arrow and the next screen will appear.

When the transcriber finds the glyph, left click on it and it will place it in the file being worked on.

Each glyph transcribing project is A ONE TIME THING. Once it is done, it never need be done again.

It may take a while to accomplish ... kind of like writing a computer program... thousands of lines of code, hours of work .. but the end user doesn't have a clue what it took. Once the time is taken to transcribe a hieroglyph, it may be shared by thousands until the internet stops working.

Either by typing in the glyph number or locating the glyph and clicking on it in the help screen, would add that glyph to your hieroglyphic word processor.

This system would

a) Display the glyphs as they appear in the actual source

b) Create an ASCII file, which can cross every hieroglyphic entered into the data base

c) Create a link to an image that the file was transcribed from. (more about this later)

Clicking on the help screen would place the symbol on the visible screen and the number in the ASCII file... hypothetical

å             Π            W            symbol
0022         0123         0456            4 digit number

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