Hieroglyphs by Ragby
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, commentors are mini writers. A lot of the best material can arise through exchanges in comments if a site promotes discussion properly.
So we needed a better way. The detail will be covered in further articles here and in a long article planned for the magazine detailing the article, but I am developing a PlugIn which will be called Egyptological Hieroglyphs and uploaded to the WordPress Respository for anybody to use once it is finished. For now, a little snippet of how it will work. If I enter [glyphs]< i-mn:n-Htp:t*p >[/glyphs] it will display:
[glyphs]< i-mn:n-Htp:t*p >[/glyphs]
That’s the name Amenhotep.
By Kate Phizackerley