Hierogloss

WORK IN PROGRESS. Future releases may change how things work.

Hierogloss is a set of extensions for the Kramdown gem for people working with hieroglyphs. Hierogloss allows you to mix glossed hieroglyphic texts with Markdown-style formatting. For example, you can write:

# Disjunction in Middle Egyptian

This example is based on one in Allen's excellent [Middle Egyptian: An
Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs][allen].

H: z:A1*Z1 | 𓊃:𓏏*𓁐 | 𓂋:𓏤-𓊪𓅱
L: s | s.t | r-pw
G: man | woman | whichever
T: either [a] man or [a] woman

You can emphasize an "or" by following the options with {r-pw}.

[allen]: http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Egyptian-Introduction-Language-Hieroglyphs/dp/0521741440

Note that the inline transliteration is marked with { and }, and that all transliterations are given in MdC format. This allows transliterations to be presented in an appropriate font with Unicode characters.

You can render this as HTML by running:

hierogloss -i example.md > example.html

The -i flag causes hierogloss to render the hieroglyphs as images. This will give you the following:

If you wish to post your text on an online forum, you may have luck with bbcode mode:

hierogloss -f bbcode example.md > example.bbcode

Note that bbcode does not support all the features of Markdown, although I'm happy to implement more of them--or to accept patches!

To install Hierogloss, make sure you have a working Ruby 2.0 setup, and then run the following:

$ gem install hierogloss

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'hierogloss'

And then execute:

$ bundle

To convert Hierogloss-format text to HTML, use the regular Kramdown APIs, but pass input: 'hierogloss' as an argument:

require 'kramdown'
require 'hierogloss'
Kramdown::Document.new(text, input: 'hierogloss').to_html

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