    Sesh Nesou, a TeX package for hieroglyphic typesetting 
	Copyright (C) 1993,1994,1995 Serge Rosmorduc

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Latest distribution available on 
	http://weblifac.ens-cachan.fr/~rosmord/archives

PLEASE ! if you use this package, send me a mail, so that :
	1) I've got an idea of who use it on what machine
	2) I can send you a notice when a new version comes up

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
any later version.

      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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This is a set of utilities for hieroglyphic typesetting in LaTeX. 
You will find it quite changed since the previous version :

* many improvement in sesh
* There is a font editor, Sbzr, and the font have (perhaps) been bettered

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		IMPORTANT : 

Well, not so important, but : I give this program under the GNU
Licence, and I don't ask for anything... except that I'd like to know
a little what happens to my program. I'd be very glad to receive news
from you, even something short like : "I got it out of sheer
curiosity". If you use it, even a little, I'd be very glad to receive
your comments. A few demo files would also be very welcome. 

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STILL IMPORTANT : WHAT TO GET !!!!!  

AS YOUR INSTALLATION MAY VARY, YOU HAVE A CHOICE OF FONT FILES TO GET,
DEPENDING ON THE SOFTWARE YOU HAVE.

SO READ THIS, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO RETRIEVE FILES YOU DON'T NEED
OR/AND COULD BUILD ANYWAY.

IN THE END OF THIS PART, YOU'LL FIND EXPLANATIONS ON WHAT TO GET IF
YOU ARE ON A CTAN SITE.

Organization :
* original tar files :

	(A) 	egyptouser.tar -> TeX styles, documentation, 
		and sesh, the C preprocessor
	(B)	egyptopk.tar   -> the pk and tfm fonts for TeX.
	(C)	egyptomf.tar   -> the metafont sources for the fonts

	(D)	egyptobzr.tar  -> the font font sources for the font 
		editor.
	(E)	Sbzr.tar       -> the font editor

the basic set is (A) and (B). you just need latex and a c compiler
(for example gcc) to use it.

retrieve (C) if you plan to use font resolutions different other than
300dpi. You need the metafont program to use (C). you can build (B)
from (C), so you can do without (B)

If you want to be able to redraw some signs, or to add new one, you
need (D) and (E). (and <<sed>>, for example GNU sed) (E) can be used
on his own for drawing new fonts and/or cleaning fonts created with
the gnu font utils.  to use (E), you need :

	metafont

	the GNU font utils (fontutils-0.6.tar, on any complete
		GNU-distributing FTP site. actually, you only need one
		of the programs, called bzrto). The font editor allows
		you to edit the fonts produced by these programs, so
		it's of interest to you even if frankly my dear you
		don't give a damn about hieroglyphs.

	SUIT, a library that allows easy production of user
	interfaces. it can be found at many ftp sites, (to find it,
	look with archie at sites that hold the srgp library, because
	"suit" is a sunstring used in many file names :-)) Sbzr has
	been successfully built and used on a 486 PC running Linux,
	and on a sparc under sunos 4.1.  As suit exists on MS/DOS,
	Windows, Mac, sgi, ... it should be possible (with work) to
	run it on these machines.  (E) and (D) can be used to re-build
	(C) which can be used to rebuild (B) :-)


Content : if a directory doesn't exist on your installation, don't
panic, you probably don't need it :-) I've indicated between
parenthesis the packages each directory is part of.

	Fonts : font-related things 
		Makefile : a GNU makefile. for building things. 
			 useful with (C), necessary with (D)
		fonts : pk and tfm files (B)
		Sbzr : font editor	(E)
		auxmf : hand made mf files (C) & (D)
		mf    : automatically built mf files (C)
		enc : encoding needed by bzrto	(D)
		goodbzr : the raw fonts	(D)

	TEX	: tex sources et al. 	(A) (The whole directory)
		EGypto.tex is the doc
		egypto.sty
		hierLtx.sty
		hiero.sty
		EgypUtil.sty the styles
		EGypto.dvi the latexed doc

	Seshnesu :	(A)
		a C preprocessor for easy? text composition

ON CTAN SITES :
   The ctan distribution is supposed to be grouped in five subdirectories :
   A-E. each of them contains the files from the part of the distribution 
   labeled by this letter. 

Version numbers can be found in the files variable.mk
 
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INSTALLATION : Well, this is difficult to explain, because your TEX
installation may vary.  If you know what .sty, .tfm and pk files are,
no problem.  If you don't know : if TEX is on YOUR computer, you can
always find files similar to the one I describe and assume you can put
the new files at the same place. If you work on a computer that's not
your own, go and ask the system manager :-) 

(A) : 
	1) put the tex style (.sty) files where they belong, that is
somewhere where TeX can find them. If you have installed NFSS2 or latex2e, 
then you should also put OT1diacr.fd at the same place.
	2) cd to Seshnesu, EDIT THE MAKEFILE, and compile sesh. 
	well... this is on a Un*x box, for example a PC under Linux. 
	
	Elsewhere : 
	* You probably won't need flex or bison and awk, because the 
	files they create are already there. 
	* Use a C compiler with Unix-like libraries... I would suggest GCC. 
	J. Kraus told me he had no problem building the programs with gcc 
	under OS/2, but that it was quite impossible on DOS with other
	compilers.

	3) get the fonts (from (B), for example), and install them in the right place. 

	4) print or view EGypto.dvi, the documentation.

(B) : 	put the .tfm files where other .tfm files live, and pk files
where pk files live. that's all.

(C)	the makefile should allow you to build the fonts for 300dpi. If you want other sizes, 
	put the mf files where they belong, and proceed.  

(D) and (E) get the gnufontutils, and SUIT. install them. edit the Makefile in the Sbzr directory.
	Compile Sbzr. Then you can edit the bzr files and generate the mf fonts.

BE AWARE THAT (C), (D), and (E) use a Makefile for GNUMAKE. you can do
manually without it, anyway.


STILL IMPORTANT 
TO customize the Makefiles for your site, edit the file

		variable.mk


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As to SUIT :
The full SUIT distribution including Postscript documentation can be 
obtained from uvacs.cs.virgina.edu .

export.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/suit contains user contributed SUIT 
fixes/enhancements/applications/documents

comp.windows.suit is the forum for discussing SUIT issues.


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Serge Rosmorduc,

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