I am writing a package in LaTeX, and would like to have basic macros (e.g. \vulture
) for printing almost all the Egyptian hieroglyphs (e.g. U+13150 𓅐 - Egyptian Hieroglyph G14 - Vulture).
As far as I checked, there is no font in CTAN that covers all the available hieroglyphs and also, I would like to be able to use Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyph font which is in .ttf
format. After some research, I understand that in order to use TrueType fonts in LaTeX I need to convert them to formats that TeX can understand such as .tfm
, .fd
, .map
etc. but got lost. How do I make these non-latin characters and their fonts available for LaTeX?
I have checked the hieroglf package, some hieroglyphs are defined in this package but they are very limited, so this package has no use for me.
I have found similar questions:
but the answers suggest XeLaTeX and LuaTex, so they are not applicable in my case.
The package needs to be compatible with LaTeX, so I am not looking for solutions in XeLaTeX or LuaTeX.
Long story short, I want something like:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % I don't know if T1 supports Egyptian hieroglyphs.
\usepackage{mypackage} % defines \vulture
\begin{document}
\vulture % prints 𓅐
\end{document}
And be able to have the output: 𓅐 in a pdf file.
Do you have any idea how to implement this?