VMs: Philip Neal's new web pages...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Philip,

Hope you're well: lots of good things on your site, too many to cover in 
this tiny margin. :-)

You wrote:
	I speculate that m is an enciphering of a rare plaintext letter
	such as z and that the encipherment called for this letter to
	be entered into the ciphertext last of all.

One theory I've entertained for a while is that EVA 'm' <=> 'x' (as in the 
letter), and EVA 'k' <=> 'X' (as in the Roman numeral). They not only are 
quite similar (structurally), they also both conform to my other prediction 
about gallows characters being looped frames holding sequences of X'es on 
the page. Steganography, shorthand, tachygraphy, or cipher... does it 
really matter which? :-)

And as you point out, reusing a relatively rare character like 'x' as an 
end-of-line hyphen character shouldn't be entirely unexpected. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....