mdc2html : a Manuel de Codage to HTML converter

How to get it

1. The mdc2html.pl perl script.
2. A Perl interpreter to run the script.
3. A library of images representing the hieroglyphic signs. These are in the GIF format.
4. A configuration file (mdc2html.conf) to match the image library.
5. A graphically aware web browser to view the output.

Getting it

• Presumably you already have a browser, which you are using to view this page. mdc2html is tested on both Netscape and Internet Explorer, but any other browser should work as well.
• The main mdc2html perl script, the configuration file, the image library and some small examples are available to download from here.
  • Windows users can get the tar gzipped file (750K). WinZIp and its clones will handle this format, but a standard zipped file (2,400K) is also available if your archiving program has problems with it.
  • Unix users should get the tar-zipped file (750K).
  The difference is just in the format of the text files: DOS or Unix.

• Perl can be obtained from the CPAN repositories - a list of mirror sites can be found at http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CPAN/SITES.html. mdc2html was developed using perl version 5.005 under Linux (x86), and has been tested with the same version under Windows 98 and version 5.003 under Solaris.

  Unpacking the files

  The mdc2html archive that you download from this site can be unzipped into any directory that you choose. This will create two subdirectories hgifs and hgifr. These contain the black and red versions of the hieroglyph images.

  To use mdc2html you will need to download, unpack and install the perl system. Follow the instructions at the CPAN site from which you download perl. Perl is an interpreter and mdc2html.pl is just an ASCII script, so you do not need to compile anything extra to run mdc2html.

  One you have installed perl and unpacked mdc2html you are ready to go! So see "How to use it".