Ar 10:15 -0800 1997-11-05, scríobh Kenneth Whistler:
>My answer would be:
>
>This is an example of Mayan:
>
> 12 78
> 34 9A
> 56 BC
>
> Fig. 1
>
>It speaks about ...
>
>When embedding Mayan text in Latin (as opposed to embedding a
>figure showing formatted Mayan text in formatted Latin text),
>I would propose instead:
>
>This is an example of Mayan: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. It speaks
>about ...
I think that if Mayanists could do either of these conveniently they'd be
really really happy. :-) But note that unlike Mongolian the Mayan
glyph-blocks would always maintain their vertical orientation in such an
arrangement.
Thinking about it, I think the following would be what they would do:
>This is an example of Mayan: 12 34 56 78 9A BC. It speaks
>about ...
>We don't need to go to schemes as exotic as layout of Mayan
>hieroglyphs to grasp the basic principle that mixing vertical layout
>and horizontal layout shouldn't follow the kind of model set
>for bidirectional layout.
Definitely correct.
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