The Extended Library is a hieroglyphic computer fount of more than 4700 signs for use with both hieroglyphic text processing programmes Glyph for Windows and MacScribe. It covers the most common hieroglyphs found in texts ranging from the Old Kingdom down to the Ptolemaic Period, represented in a normalized, stereotype form, mostly concentrated on graphemes and the number of graphic variants reduced to a minimum.
An example of the signs follows:
The Extended Library version for IBM-compatible PC is provided in a vectorized, Glyph-specific format (not PostScript/TrueType), while the version for Macintosh is in PostScript format. When installed, the Windows version occupies some 10 MegaBytes hard disk space, and the Macintosh version 6 MegaBytes.
Provided with the Extended Library is the book Hieroglyphica, which contains a listing of all the signs in the library. The book is devided into two parts. The first part lists all the hieroglyphs in the typeface by their alphanumeric codes. The second part is an authoritative listing of the signs in each category according to formal and functional aspects. This provides the user with a work of reference for the rapid location of a particular code. It also presents an overview of the occurence of individual hieroglyphs in the so-called composite hieroglyphs.
A preview of the sign collection of this book and the Extended Library is available here.
Both Windows and Macintosh versions of the Extended Library together with the Hieroglyphica book cost Dfl. 350 (Dutch Florins/Guilders). A special price applies when ordered at the same time as Glyph for Windows or MacScribe.
