RE: Voynich (Left to Right or Right to Left text?)

["Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27 Jul 2001, at 19:04, Giddy Landan wrote:
> It reminds me a pet theory of mine: that P and F are the real string spacers
> and token delimiters, and that spaces are either nulls or an additional
> character.
> Any sense?

The function of p and f has been discussed many times, I think that 
originally related to the gallows as shown in Cappelli's dictionary.
I don't think that p and f are the spaces and the rest aren't. Of 
course I cannot prove it, but if so, then words would be extremely 
long (unless an entire paragraph could be a single word)

And why to write them at the beginning of a word in a paragraph 
(their most likely occurrence) where the token is already delimited?

Perhaps p and f could be "line spacing" null characters (as shown 
in Cappelli) or some fancy form of another character.

Lots of tests have been done on the frequency of the gallows, have 
a look in the list mail archives.
Cheers,
Gabriel