Dear list members,
I am trying to past hieroglyphs within a text through a software called JSesh, but the the signs of the hieroglyphs are higher than the normal text. I attach here an example. It is gibberish, but just for showing.
Is there anything I can do in order that text and graphiics are correctly aligned? Is there any particular setting that I can adjust?
Copy and paste works perfectly in MS Word for instance. But I refuse to work in MS Word to write an academic book. I have done almost two decades ago, and it a nightmare to use it for long text.
Which version of Scrivener are you using? (I was going by your user info which says you’re on Windows … hence the question! This is the Mac Technical Support forum)
Are the heiroglyphs pasted in as images or does JSesh work like a 2-byte font with each heiroglyph typed in individually in Scrivener?
Dear Xiamenese,
I thank you and I edited the signature. I moved to Mac in 2014, but I have not changed the signature.
I use Scrivener 3 for Mac in Mojave.
As for the hieroglyphs, they are pasted as PDF, as it is the only way to paste them in Scrivener.
After posting, I discovered that I can align the the text and the image using Baseline and then lower, while for compile, I have to put the dpi to 600, in order keep the resolution.
As you’re using Mac 3, I was going to suggest seeing if you can make a character style with a lowered baseline for your heiroglyphs, as then you would just have to paste them in and apply the style which would be much easier than having to adjust the baseline each time.
Mind you, I have not tried anything like this, and I’m on my iPad at the moment so can’t experiment.
Also, if you use Keyboard Maestro (which I never have) you could probably automate the paste+lowered-baseline further.
Install a font that supports that unicode code range (13000—1342F) and Scrivener should use that (seems much less kludgy than inline PDFs), in theory at least!
EDIT: installing Noto noto-website-2.storage.googleap … hinted.zip and they render in Scrivener. You can use unicode hex input keyboard or even the macOS text replacement system to auto insert into Scrivener:
Dear Xiamanese,
I believe I will follow your suggestion to create a specific style for the hieroglyphic image.
For Nontroppo,
I thank you for the information, Egyptian hieroglyphs are in Unicode, but no actual software is able to handle the font as in a real case situation, with signs groups in squared groups. Thus, there is still the need to deal with specialised hieroglphic word processors, which are able to manupulate the signs and create sort of vector graphics.
