You probably never hear about that, but there is a TeX module to write the hieroglyphs text from a specific syntax. For example <-p:t-o-l:m-i-i-s->! may render the name of the pharaoh Ptolemy into a cartouche. Package is downloadable here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/hieroglyph/?action=/tex-archive/fonts/. I would like to be able to use it on Wikipedia, but if it is not possible, I thought of an alternative simple idea.
The alternative idea is to generate and load all pictures on the server (basic set is about 300 small pictures) and to create an external tool (I can host it) to generate wiki-table that put together those pictures to create hieroglyph text. This solution needs no modification to the software but make text modification difficult.
For example, put p:t-o-l:m-i-i-s! in the tool may create the following table we just have to copy and paste to Wikipedia:
{|
| |[[image:hiero_p.png]] | [[image:hiero_t.png]]
| rowspan="2" | [[image:hiero_o.png]]
| [[image:hiero_l.png]] | [[image:hiero_m.png]]
| rowspan="2" | [[image:hiero_i.png]]
| rowspan="2" | [[image:hiero_i.png]]
| rowspan="2" | [[image:hiero_s.png]]
|}
TeX or WikiTable generator, what is your recommendation?
Aoineko