InScribe 2004: Technical Reference

Documents referenced in this section require Adobe Acrobat Reader (available for free download from Adobe here). This enables use of hieroglyphic and specialist fonts without the need for the reader to install or own these fonts.

1. InScribe 2004 Hieroglyphic Font and Sign List

• InScribe 2004 & Basic Gardiner Sign List [6 pages, PDF file, 445K]. Documents the InScribe 2004 sign codes for the basic Gardiner sign list as given in Egyptian Grammar and the previous release of InScribe.
• InScribe 2004 & Gardiner 1953 Supplement [7 pages, PDF file, 197K]. Correlation of the InScribe 2004 font and sign list extensions with the Supplement to The Catalogue of the Hieroglyphic Printing Type (Alan Gardiner, Oxford 1954). 110 signs from Gardiner groups A-Aa and their associated codes plus 48 emblems for Nomes of Upper and Lower Egypt. Discrepencies with Hieroglyphica are noted here.

2. InScribe 2004 Typography

• Special Sign Groups in InScribe 2004 [4 pages, PDF file, 167K]. Documents the special sign groups supported by InScribe 2004 such as .