[Aztlan] Free Mayan Day and Month fonts
Michael Finley
mjfinley at shaw.ca
Thu Jun 12 01:19:51 CDT 2008
ECOLING at aol.com wrote:
>A set of five fonts for Mayan day glyphs, month glyphs, and numbers
>which were made available some years ago from the combined work
>of Linda Schele, Nora England, and myself is now updated to work with
>more modern printers. . . .
>Please note that these fonts DO NOT enable you to type full long counts.
>They do not contain glyphs for Baktun, K'atun, Tuun, Winal, or K'in,
>nor any ISIG glyphs.
>So those interested in typing birthdates will not find them adequate.
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For those interested, there is a freeware font, called "Mayan," composed
by Karen Helene Jensen, that includes the "head" forms of the period
glyphs from baktun to k'in, though you do have to search for them in
this rather eclectic font. With this and the ecoling fonts, you can
create whole long count dates if the spirit moves you! The font can be
found on my web site near the bottom of
http://members.shaw.ca/mjfinley/Maya.htm
Michael Finley
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