Typesetting Old Babylonian

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PrimeViridian
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Typesetting Old Babylonian

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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
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Zaarin
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Re: Typesetting Old Babylonian

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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?”

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Re: Typesetting Old Babylonian

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Zaarin wrote:Would this be helpful?
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.

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.

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