Interlinear format ? What is that?

The hieroglyphic text given on the main pages is closely spaced, and it is impossible to write out your transcription and translation directly under the corresponding signs. Geoffrey Graham showed me his system of analysing texts, which uses 2 blank lines between each line of hieroglyphs. Here you can pencil in your transcription and translation, jot down a few notes or references, etc. Perhaps some of you might find these a bit more convenient to use. I have kept the line numbering of the original typeset pages, and since the text from each original page now spans 2 to 3 pages in this format, I have labelled the pages eg. Page 1, part 1.1, part 1.2, etc.

GO TO >> (AEL page numbers)

Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11

1.1 , 1.2 2.1 , 2.2 , 2.3 3.1 , 3.2 4.1 , 4.2 5.1 , 5.2 6.1 , 6.2 7.1 , 7.2 , 7.3 8.1 , 8.2 , 8.3 9.1 10.1 11.1

Printing the pages.

On Mac's, the GIF images look very large on the screen. That is because I saved them at 144 dpi resolution but GIF files are always displayed on the screen at 72 dpi (so in this case are displayed twice as large). It is best to download each image file to your computer, then open it up in a graphics program, adjust the printing dimensions to fit the page size you use, and print it. The resolution is good enough to recognise all the signs clearly. Given that the image is about 2 x larger than my paper size (A4), you will need to reduce it to 40 - 50 % to fit in on a standard page size.

For DOS users, here is a suggestion posted by Marc Line (24th May, 1997):

" The method which seems to work the best for me involves the use of a piece of shareware called Paintshop Pro. It's available gratis from WWW (URL via a search) sites or from incentive CDs on magazine covers. It allows for the resizing of graphics files prior to printing. The only thing you have to watch out for is that in the process of reduction, a bitmap image which has narrow line widths might lose the odd line or two. The "p" box regularly becomes 3 sided, for example. After printing, it's a good idea to check the hard-copy with the screen image in order to pencil in the losses. "

** Note **: for those not familiar with Netscape, to download an image you see on the screen, put your cursor arrow on the image, hold down the mouse (right button) until you get the pop-up menu asking if you want to 'save the image'. Select this save option and the file will be downloaded.