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Re: Egyptian Language Fonts

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From: Rolf Lindgren
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 11:41
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In article <BtzqtL.6wq@gate.demon.co.uk> James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>   Before I go ahead and start coding up between 800 and 3000 glyhps in 
>   METAFONT I thought I'd ask out here. Does anybody know of any 
>   hierogyphic, demotic or hieratic fonts available for typesetting Middle 
>   Egyptian?
>

There's an article about this in one of the more recent issues of PUBLISH.
As I recall, there was an article about a commercially available font. If
this is a PostScript font, you can (most likely) use it with TeX.



>   James Petts
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       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
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       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
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From: rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Subject: Re: Egyptian Language Fonts
In-Reply-To: James Petts's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:15:20 GMT
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