What's new in JSesh 7.6.1 Pre-release
Feb 21, 2023
- Fix a "bug" : on some recent screens, the "Edit" menu was too large
- Fix visual bug on high-resolution display for Mac
- Fix bug for Turkish locale
- added texts : Amduat from Thutmosis III's tomb (Thanks to Jean-Yves Barré and his students)
- added texts : Youth of Thutmosis III (J-Y Barré)
- added texts : Papyrus Chester Beatty IV (not proofread yet)
New in JSesh 7.5.5 (Nov 11, 2020)
- Improved features :
- the search system has been improved, and is much faster now
- a system to add new line numbers efficiently ;
- export in Unicode format of the hieroglyphic text (when possible)
- support for the new U+A7BD support of yod
- at least, "enclosure" signs are drawn correctly
- moved to Java9, as Java8 support is going away...
- Bug fixes:
- new files, when saved, will be correctly understood as ending with a ".gly" suffix.
- fixes to the group editor : rotation and scaling where very difficult to use.
New in JSesh 7.5.4 (Nov 11, 2020)
- JSesh 7.5.4 contains a number of improved features :
- the search system has been improved, and is much faster now
- a system to add new line numbers efficiently ;
- export in Unicode format of the hieroglyphic text (when possible)
- support for the new U+A7BD support of yod
- at least, "enclosure" signs are drawn correctly
- moved to Java9, as Java8 support is going away...
- Bug fixes:
- new files, when saved, will be correctly understood as ending with a ".gly" suffix.
- fixes to the group editor : rotation and scaling where very difficult to use.
New in JSesh 7.4.2 (Oct 4, 2020)
- Improved search possibilities:
- search in non-hieroglyphic text is available ;
- "wildcard" searches
- can search for variants of a sign.
- The search functions are expected to evolve later:
- a more powerful search, based on "regular expressions", will be available for power users
- the variant signs management will be improved (it's currently a bit raw).
- Note that sign variant information is taken from the current data in JSesh. As such, it's still very partial.
New in JSesh 6.5.5 (Dec 12, 2015)
- What's new:
- bug fix for PDF output: PDF export of files with explicit page break used to fail.
- sign D280A added.
- a few new texts: beginning of P. Harris, and Ramses' great dedicatory inscription in Abydos.
- should work without problem with java 8 on windows.
- a standalone version for mac os X (10.9 and later), which includes java. Nothing else to download (but quite large) :
New in JSesh 6.5.1 (May 4, 2015)
- Full coverage of the Hieroglyphica. The forty signs or so which were missing are now available.
- Aside from this, JSesh 6.5.1 has mainly a few bug fixes. In particular, it deals with a nasty bug which was found in PDF generation for printing (some signs were not in CMYK format. It might seem cryptic to you, but it's important for printing shops).
New in JSesh 6.4.1 (Sep 16, 2014)
- Another bug fix: in column mode, empty cartouches made the program crash (stuff like -ra-mn:n-xpr-).
New in JSesh 6.3.3 (Oct 14, 2013)
- This release is mainly a bug fix.
- Most important feature : fixed a bug probably introduced with JSesh 6.0 :
- When a sign was selected in the Palette using a phonetic code, the software would freeze. That's fixed now.
- A number of missing signs have been added : some complete the MdC coverage (regarding the hieroglyphic), plus a few others for Unicode coverage, and finally one or two signs I have recently met.
- The signs which are added because they are in the Unicode system, and not in the Hieroglyphica have a code ending in EXTU : US22F31AEXTU (sign by S. Thomas, (US22) for F31A in Unicode).
- Removed a feature originally introduced to speed up rendering, but which only took lots of memory on modern machines. Now JSesh will be less memory-hungry.
New in JSesh 6.3.2 (Apr 4, 2013)
- 6.3.2 fixes a bug in the JSesh installer on Windows 7 64 bytes, and adds a few improvements too:
- the last line of a justified text is left as is if the line is too short.
- inter-quadrant skips are now parts of document preferences and they can be change.
New in JSesh 6.3.1 (Apr 4, 2013)
- 6.3.1 fixes a small bug in 6.3.0, which it replaces.
- bug fix : user information added with the SignInfo application was not used in the user interface. Now it is. (if you have downloaded 6.3.0, and if you don't use SignInfo, you can keep 6.3).
New in JSesh 6.3.0 (Apr 4, 2013)
- Better behaviour when importing Winglyph files : if JSesh doesn't understand a line in a winglyph file, it will now read the rest of the text, and display the MdC line as plain text. Previous behaviour was to print an error message and stop reading.
- Bug fix in the palette behaviour (in some cases, the palette displayed the same sign a number of times)
- Bug fix: WYSIWYG copy method did not always use "as one picture" to export the picture.
- Help menu (opens the JSesh documentation web site)
- And, most important, a basic justification system
New in JSesh 6.0.0 (Apr 4, 2013)
- The main feature, along with small fixes, etc. is a "glossary editor". Select a few groups, open the glossary editor, give a code to the group, and then, access the group simply by typing the code.
- The code can be anything that looks like manuel de codage, even a code already used elsewhere: the system uses the "space" key to cycle between all possibilities.
- As a side effect, the grouping commands like ":" and "*" works in a more natural way.
- Note that 6.0.0, being a 0.0 version, needs some testing. Keep using 5.8 if you are finishing an article, a thesis or anything of value. Even if it doesn't look like it, the changes are not so small. This being said, I have found this new version to respond well.
- Another new feature is that you don't need to type the gardiner code with uppercase anymore. If you type aa1 or AA1, you will get the Aa1 sign anyway, for instance.Fixes a bug in the JSesh installer on Windows 7 64 bytes.
- The last line of a justified text is left as is if the line is too short.
- Inter-quadrant skips are now parts of document preferences and they can be changed.
New in JSesh 5.8 (Jul 6, 2012)
- The graphical format preference for "RTF copy/pastes" was not saved correctly.
New in JSesh 5.7 (Jul 6, 2012)
- Version 5.7 is mainly a bug fix for 5.6. It solves a problem on windows: the choice of transliteration font was not correctly kept when the font was the "old" JSesh transliteration font (non unicode).
New in JSesh 5.6 (Mar 27, 2012)
- updates in the texts (from hie format to the new JSesh format)
- important bug fix for PDF cut and paste (not pdf export) : the proportions are now the same as the original proportions
- fix for transliteration font (in some conditions, the Windows version of JSesh kept forgetting that it was using JSesh old font)
- Portuguese and spanish translation (please test and send feedback)
- bug fix in SVG reading. JSesh can now handle SVG signs with "arcs" in them. better shapes for numbers 2 and 3.
- Quick pdf export : folder selection now ok
- Shading is now placed under the drawings, solving problems in PDF export (we don't use transparency, to avoid problems when printing).