VMs: RE: Bruce's Gallows Summary Request...

["John Grove" <4groves@xxxxxxxxx>]

Apart from f1r, I would still say that the frequency of any f/p gallows
COULD still be construed as indicative of a paragraph or sub-paragraph line
no matter where in the line they fall. There just aren't very many overall -
then again - who knows what the rules of usage really are? Keep at'er!

John.

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Subject: VMs: RE: Bruce's Gallows Summary Request...

I just went through the first 20 pages of the herbal section as a
sample, and came up with 5 hooked gallows not in the first line.
If we also include the combination gallows characters, this number
comes to either eight or nine, I didn't keep track.  So if this is
a fair sample of the rest of the VMS, the hooked gallows occur
much less often in non-initial lines, but they do indeed occur
elsewhere.

I would say that a good rule is that when a line begins with a
hooked gallows character, it is to be interpreted as the beginning
of a paragraph.  Beyond that I'm not sure.

GC