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• Were the images drawn before or after the text?

  daviduartep > 5 hours ago

  Hello folks,
  
  Looking at the images, it appears to me it would be easier to draw the images first and then fill the text, and text do seem to conform to the images, not the other way around.
  
  I only found one instance where the image appears to obscure the text:
  
  
  
  But it appears they only made the last character smaller, not the image is over the text itself.
  
  What do you think?
  
  Thanks!

• RE: Were the images drawn before or after the text?

  Jorge_Stolfi > 4 hours ago

  (5 hours ago)daviduartep Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Looking at the images, it appears to me it would be easier to draw the images first and then fill the text, and text do seem to conform to the images, not the other way around.

  
  That seems to be the consensus view around here.  But not universal...
  
  

  Quote:I only found one instance where the image appears to obscure the text ... But it appears they only made the last character smaller, not the image is over the text itself.

  
  That is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Please, folks -- when you post an image, give the page number too... Thanks...)
  
  There are several other cases like that one, where the text runs into the drawing.
  
  One may think that shows that the drawing was done last.  But it makes less sense that the Artist would draw the figure over the text, than that the Scribe would write the text over the figure.  For the latter, there is an excuse: when the scribe started writing the word, he miscalculated how long it would be; but he had to write it in that space, anyway.  Or only break it at certain spots.  (In my view, Che is a single "letter" of the language; splitting before the e would be as wrong as hyphenating "archbishop" between the "c" and the "h".)
  
  All the best, --stolfi
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