RE: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes they do 'seem' to exist mid-para on rare occasions -- if one assumes
the paragraphs are all very clearly dilineated. Due to the very few
occurances outside of an initial line  of a paragraph (not just of a page)
I would still say that 'f' and 'p' are in fact only variations of another
character say 't' and 'k' under certain circumstances [ one of which is
on first lines of paragraphs -- but another rule has to apply to account
for the fact that regular k & t types also occur on the same lines ]

As for first word of page dropping the first character -- that's been in
the archives along with a number of discussions regarding f & p as well.
The only point I think Rene was trying to make was that you can't substitute
f & p as unique characters because they have some kind of rule applied to
them
that makes them appear [almost always] in the first line of a paragraph.
Very
rarely do the 'seem' to be outside of that rule.

John.

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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:28 PM
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Subject: RE: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions


Hi everyone,

At 18:35 28/08/2003 -0400, Larry Roux wrote:
>I stand by what I said.  Unless I totally misunderstand what you are
>saying, but I see 'f' and 'p' all over the place, not just at the
>beginning of lines or even the beginning of words.  That was just the
>first page I looked at.  The second page I looked at (f36r) has the same
>thing.  The third page (f48r) again, 'f' and/or 'p'  within the text.
>
>Am I missing something?  3 pages I looked at and all three had 'f' and/or
>'p' within the text.  I could look more, but feel I must be
>misunderstanding something.

f114r I've described, and f36r clearly has two separate paragraphs, with
those single-leg gallows only on the top line of each paragraph - so Rene
is correct for those cases.

However, you are right that f48r does indeed have a single one (near the
end of the 3rd line). f30r also has one in mid-para (para 1, line 4): f30v
has two in mid-para (line 8): f33r has two (lines 4 and 5), and so on - so
you are correct here.

While it seems to me that the majority of these single-leg gallows do occur
in the first line of paragraphs, it's clear that they do also occur
elsewhere - would anyone care to calculate the relative frequency of these
two scenarios, so that we can talk about this based on hard data?

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


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