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Package hieroglf:
The "poor man's" Egyptian Hieroglyphic font.

The hieroglf bundle provides a Type 1 renidition of some of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphic writing was used between about 3000 BC and 400 AD.

The bundle is based on Serge Rosmorduc's comprehensive hieroglyph package, but only provides about one tenth of his 650-odd hieroglyphs. Sufficient glyphs are provided for writing a few names like Cleopatra or Ptolomeny (together with cartouches) and some numbers, but the package is not for serious Egyptologists.

The bundle is part of a set of archaic fonts, and requires use of the oands fonts from that set.

Getting it

If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation manager. (For installation help, click on your distribution's name.)

Distribution Package name
MiKTeX archaic
TeX Live archaic

You can also visit hieroglf's CTAN directory to browse the source or download the material for installation by hand.

More

Documentation on CTAN
Readme
Package documentation:
Sample of hieroglyphic font:
Samples of entire archaic bundle:
Documentation off CTAN -none known-
Maintainers
Peter R. Wilson
Version 1.3
License LaTeX Project Public License
Related packages -none recorded-
Keywords
fonts, mathematics
languages other than English
Characterizations
primary:
Fonts > Symbol fonts

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