Re: Fw: Character n anomaly

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

On 30 Jul 2001, at 10:30, Nick Pelling wrote:

> IMO, the unpredictability near (right-hand) line-ends clearly points
> to (1) cryptography, and (2) left-to-right encoding. At the very
> least, the GSH fits both of these.

Hi again,
Could you please expand on the "unpredictability near..."  I am not 
sure what is that referring to.

Note that there are characters that tend to be line initial (f,p,q)  and 
line ending (m,g)  (I think that it was what Currier was on about, not 
the gallows, but please correct me if I am wrong).
There is also indication of the left to right direction from the intensity 
of the ink as well (this was clearly seen in some wonderful colour 
slides that Jim Reeds brought to the meeting in Teddington.

I agree that it is better to start looking "disregarding" all spaces, 
that is why the spectral analysis stuff was done in the space-less 
version.  But still I don't think that there were any indications that 
spaces were *not* spacers since the modal token length was 
suggested in the spectral analysis plots.

About "padding"... the last line in a paragraph usually doesn't show 
any padding. 

The question to ask (to which of course I haven't got an answer) is: 
what would convince me that the spaces are separating words?

Cheers,

Gabriel
BTW where in the UK are you? Good to know when we organise 
the next v-meeting ;-)