New on CTAN: mayanumber
Date: September 10, 2026 7:16:41 AM CEST
Manuel López Mateos submitted the
mayanumber
package.
Version: 1.0 2026-09-09
License: mit
Summary description: Mayan numerals and vigesimal notation with positional floor colors
Announcement text:
The mayanumber package typesets Mayan numerals (dots and bars) and vigesimal alphabetic notation with a seven-color positional cycle, for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, with unlimited magnitude.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/mayanumber The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/unicodetex/latex/mayanumber/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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The mayanumber package typesets Mayan numerals (dots and bars) and vigesimal alphabetic notation with a seven-color positional cycle, for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, with unlimited magnitude.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/mayanumber The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/unicodetex/latex/mayanumber/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
Mayanumber – Mayan numerals and vigesimal notation with positional floor colors
This package typesets decimal integers of any magnitude as Mayan numerals (dots and bars, Unicode block U+1D2E0-U+1D2F3) or as vigesimal alphabetic notation (0-9, A-J), for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. Each positional floor can be colored with a seven-color cycle (earth, water, vegetation, life, sky, sun, universe). Options: vertical/horizontal layout, colors/nocolor, scale and alignment; the starred form prints the alphabetic notation. The base-20 conversion uses long division over the decimal string, so magnitudes are unbounded. Requires the free font BabelStone Mayan Numerals. Extends the original macro by @egreg (TeX StackExchange, answer 452806).
| Package | Mayanumber |
| Version | 1.0 2026-09-09 |
| Copyright | 2026 Manuel López Mateos |
| Maintainer | Manuel López Mateos |