Mayaps: Maya Hieroglyphics with (l a )t E X

We present a system for hieroglyphical composition of ancient Maya texts, to be used for their palaeography, the production of dictionaries, epigraphical articles and textbooks. It is designed on the base of TEX and PostScript using the Dvips interface, and includes a set of Maya fonts. The ancient Mayan writing system is very particular: base writing signs attach to each other from all four sides (left, right, top, bottom), and are also rotated and rescaled. This cannot be produced with TEX’s usual tools. For example, we can type: \maya{li.AM2 u.TUN/CHU uj.UJ.ki death.KIMI/la} to obtain ', $. %+ (& " (Dresden codex).