The RES-project (Revised Encoding Scheme for hieroglyphic)

This is the home page of the RES encoding scheme for hieroglyphic.

General documentation

• M.-J. Nederhof. A Revised Encoding Scheme for Hieroglyphic. In Proceedings of the XIV Computer-aided Egyptology Round Table, Pisa, Italy, July 2002. [pdf]
• M.-J. Nederhof. The Manuel de Codage encoding of hieroglyphs impedes development of corpora. In S. Polis and J. Winand, editors, Texts, Languages & Information Technology in Egyptology, pp. 103-110. Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2013. [pdf]

Description of the encoding scheme

• Tutorial.
• Annotated grammar.
• Text direction.
• Global values.
• Scaling and positioning.
• Encoding issues.
• Conversion from Manuel de Codage.
• RESlite.
• Respective versions.

The implementation: res2image

(The implementation from the download link below is in C. This is not maintained at present. I recommend that you use the alternative implementation in Java.)

• Manual pages.
• Additional data formats.
• Download (of the C version, which is not maintained at present; preferable is the Java version below).
• Known bugs.
• Wish list.
• Alternative implementation in Java.

Applications

• Use inside web pages (JavaScript).
• Use inside web pages (images).
• Use inside Latex.

Links

• Other work on data formats and software for Egyptology.
• A description of the Manuel de Codage format by Serge Rosmorduc.