RE: belated replies: [was VMs: Evita, EVA, and transcriptions.]

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

If you want to study weirdness in the VMS f112r is a good place to start.

1) The "pi" shaped character appears here, mixed in with the text.  While this occurs in other places it is rare.

2) The gallows beginning the seventh line has a c within the gallows.  Maybe related to the odd "c as a basis for the gallows" seen elsewhere?

3) Lots of odd words such as 'qeey', 'odys', 'opamdy' 'tedain'  and 'qeol' 

4) other weirdo glyphs: she?dy in the 16th line, and a "p" (not EVA p but regular p) on line 31




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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> John@xxxxxxxxxxxx 02/21/04 08:38 AM >>>

	Barb,

	In response to your response on Jon's note:

		On the first line of f78r, most of the gallows have a slight 'leg'
showing - some more than others. It looks like a small 'c' or even a tiny
'L'
on the bottom of the gallows. It often does look like the 'legs' were drawn
first and then the gallows attached to them (but, it is very difficult to
really be sure).

	A little clearer - perhaps is on the 15th line, 4th gallow. Again, these
may be caused by some kind of artifact - but they are consistent enough
through
almost all gallows to have been noted a number of times over the years by
different
people.

	John.

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Subject: belated replies: [was VMs: Evita, EVA, and transcriptions.]

>Jon Jotted;
>In your detained examination of the script, have you noticed that
frequently
>the 'legs' of the gallows characters appear to have been drawn in halves?

My "detailed examination" is of the text on one page ; f78r ; if you can
find an example of what you mean on that page I'll have a look at it.

What I *suspect* however is that you're looking at "double artifacts".
Converting colour to Black and White creates tonal artifacts, and converting
to digital creates "pixel average" artifacts;  converting a colour page to a
digital black and white and you've both these artifacts to content with!
Normally it is a fair bet that any "disjointed" line in a digital image is a
digital artifact. In addition there are places where the faint brown ink and
the fawn vellum have the same tonal value and become merged in Black and
White repro - digitizing that artifact is almost certain to create
"disjointing" and "offsetting" between pixels of lines that are actually
straight (digitizing "averages" the total content of the pixel area).

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