JSesh

JSesh is a word processor, for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. It's
used in many professional egyptological publications: the IFAO, the JARCE, and all kinds of books.

• JSesh texts can be copied and pasted into other softwares (as MS/Word or Openoffice). It is also possible to create pictures in various graphical formats (jpeg, png, pdf, svg, emf, macpict, etc...)
• It is is definitly allowed to use JSesh for publication. Mention of its use (in the same way one does mention fonts used in a book) would be nice, but is not an absolute requirement.
• JSesh is free: you can download and use it at no cost, and give copies of it.
• JSesh is opensource: its java code is freely available (under the CeCill license). For the user, it's definitly safer, as it means that, even if its present author was unable to work on it, other computer scientists might take on the development.

Citing JSesh

If you use JSesh in a scientific work, you can reference it the following way :

Rosmorduc, Serge. (2014). JSesh Documentation. [online] Available at: http://jseshdoc.qenherkhopeshef.org [Accessed 12 Jun. 2014].

Origin of the Name “JSesh”

From time to time, users wonder whence the name of the software comes. Reality is probably a bit disappointing :-)

Any Egyptologist will, of course, understand that “sesh” is the root for “to write.” But the “J”? Well, my previous software was called “TkSesh,” because it was written in TCL/TK, a fairly practical, though limited, programming language.

JSesh is written in Java, hence the “J”.There is no other reason behind this “J” than my glaring lack of imagination in inventing names.