Mrthfx

I am a new Latex user with little programming knowledge. I have downloaded the hieroglyph package and unzipped the two files. The installation instructions list a path where to place MF and AUXMF folders. My problem is that I cannot find either folder in the unzipped files. What don't I understand about this instruction and how do I proceed from this point?

Thank you for responding. Any help is greatly appreciated. I downloaded HieroTex-3.5.tgz, HieroType1-3.1.4.tgz, LIEZMOI, and README from CTAN Tex-archive fonts hieroglyph. I am using MiKTeX 2.9 with TeXstudio 2.12.4.

Disclaimer: This is just an interpretation of the very bad readme combined with some TeX knowledge. I did not test it.

You will find two types of folders in those archives: texmf and something else.

The texmf folder should be put anywhere on your laptop and will be indexed by MikTeX as soon as you add it. Put the contents of both texmf folders (from both archives) into one folder, f.i. texmf-local, so that you would have the following structure:

- texmf-local

-- doc

-- dvips

-- fonts

-- pdftex

-- tex

Then add this to the MikTeX search path (tab roots in the settings manager, afaik). Rebuild your filename database (tab general in the settings manager, afaik).

The last step would be to put the sesh executables from HieroTeX into a folder which is in the PATH of your OS. There are tons of how-tos out there showing how to do that. Test if it worked by running sesh on the command-line.

Now you should be ready to go.

The author of this package is the associated professor Rosmorduc. The unpackged files contain a folder named texmf which is already in the structer of TDS. Use your "Miktex option" you can register those files in right directory for Miktex. But the last step for your installation(run sesh.exe) is outdate, because your new version of Miktex is designed for 64bit system instead the one(32bit system) Pro. Rosmorduc programmed sesh.exe. The corresponding file to run Sesh.exe in Miktex 2.9 which you are using is in the directory rootMikTexmiktexbinx64. Indeed, if you still wish to run the package of Rosmorduc, you should update the whole engine of this package in this sense.

The steps are:

1. Put sesh.exe somewhere visible to your operating system (I made a new folder and put the folder name into the path environmental variable (on Windows machine))


2. Put everything in the two texmf folders into your local texmf tree (I made a texmf folder, and copied the folders in)


3. Refresh the file name data base, and refresh font map files (in MiKTeX Console, under Tasks)


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   Try the test file, call it foo.htx:

   
   
   

   documentclass[12pt]{article}
   
   usepackage{egypto}
   
   usepackage[psfonts]{hiero}
   
   begin{document}
   
   begin{hieroglyph}
   
   A1 end{hieroglyph}
   
   end{document}
   
   

   
   

It turns out that Sesh.exe is a pre-processor that converts Gardiner Numbers (like A1) into hierotex code (leavevmode loneSign{Aca GA/32/), which includes layout, positioning, direction and scaling.

Sesh uses stdin and stdout, so command-line compilation looks like this, including the input and output arrows:

sesh < foo.htx > foo.tex

latex foo.tex

I wasn't able to install the PS and Type1 fonts properly (old-style, non-Unicode font installation is a bugbear!) - and got as far as on the latex run as maketfm failing because there's a Hier.cfg file that it couldn't find.

Alternative

Easier for me at the moment to use a Unicode font (like Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs) and raw Tikz, with manual positioning and scaling, like so: