First post.
I have roughly 10 lines of Old Babylonian I need as text (or even as a clean, high-res, BW image).
I have a high-res image of the ancient tablet, the transliteration, and the translation... though what to do next I really have no clue. Has anyone here done this before?
Thanks
-R
Typesetting Old Babylonian
Re: Typesetting Old Babylonian
Would this be helpful?
"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”
Re: Typesetting Old Babylonian
Check whether you need the number 20. It's only just been added (Version 8.0), and it's tucked away in the alphabetic section. It's called U+12399 CUNEIFORM SIGN U U and has no numerical properties, in accordance with the Unicode policy of being maximally unhelpful for cuneiform.Zaarin wrote:Would this be helpful?
If you want some compression of short cuneiform texts, SCSU lives up to its intention and achieves around 50% compression. Of course, if you're typesetting, your files will be mostly ASCII mark-up anyway.