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Another possibility for half-spaces (though I have not done work
researching this - I am sure someone has..) is that the encoder may have enterd
the text, intentionally leaving spaces between characters and then filling in
the nulls later. Sometimes they plain just didn't leave as much space as
they needed....
But then I find if you copy pages by hand the character flow seems to
just whiz onto the page. It is rare that you feel 'stuttered' while
writing the lines.
I wish someone would decode this darn thing so all the answers would come
flowing out of the pages....urgh!
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx 07/04/03 06:18AM >>> Hi! --- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So: my guess is that most full spaces are fake, and > that most half spaces > are real (mainly to help disambiguate the paired > ciphertext). While you're > coming from the transcription end here, & I from the > cipher end, between us > we're probably looking at the same thing here. :-) The far simpler explanation is that 'half spaces' are a result of the fact that the Voynich MS was written by a human being, not a machine, and that some of them are real spaces that happen to be a bit short and others are the gaps between adjacent characters that happen to be a bit long. Two overlapping distributions, if you will. So, with all due respect, and in the frame of cordial exchange of opinions in the lack of any way to prove anything, I would say that the above: > So: my guess is that most full spaces are fake, > and that most half spaces are real is, at the moment, spaculation not substatiated by anything. Really, there is no time limit in providing the substantiation :-) Cheers, Rene __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |