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One Guide item that could stand unstreamlining is the hieroglyphically abbreviated "Tips on Highspots" thart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fourthly, many writers, such as Ovid, only speak poetically, and others, as Paracelsus, only mystically, whilst the remainder speak rhetorically, emblematically, or hieroglyphically.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
Dispatched round the island with divers bits of tappa, hieroglyphically stamped, he merely deposited one upon each altar; superadding a stone, to keep the missive in its place; and so went his rounds.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
These symbols are without doubt of very ancient origin, and Boerhæve in his Theory of Chemistry explains them hieroglyphically as follows:— The symbols are shown as images at the end of the file.
From On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art by James Mactear
I believe that it is the Sumerian unu, “city,” and that the column which represented it hieroglyphically denoted “a foundation” or “settlement.”60.It will be shown in a future lecture that Osiris was the mummified Anher.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
