VMs: RE: sentences / paragraphs / etc...

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't you mean EVA 'm'?

http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/eva.htm

	x is the very rare picnic table - the upside down 'v' with a horizontal
line on top.

	While taking a quick look at the link above, I have to admit that I never
really viewed all the images before... I mean I perused through the
"Extended EVA Characters" before, but never realized they had also covered
the 'Connectivity' sets that show a few of the abbreviated combined forms
like 'ao' and 'oy'... of course there are also some 'chy' combined forms out
there -- some combined forms are part of the regular set... 'u', 'm', 'g'
(in my opinion of course).

	I'm also not sure why there is a distinction between Extended character 154
and 'z'.

	i/e formation pairs (that I see) ... n/b, r/s, j/d, m/g, (z or 154)/152 ...
highly suspect: l/y


	John.

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Subject: VMs: sentences / paragraphs / etc...


Hi Maurizio,

At 20:04 21/02/2004 +0100, Maurizio Gavioli wrote:
>"There are theories / explanations / comments on the fact that *sentences*
>never carry on the
>next page, but always end when the page ends?"

The most obvious observation is that the last line of text on most pages
(and indeed of most paragraphs) rarely runs right to the the end of a line:
and so there's no immediate reason to suspect that sentences cross pages.

However, the EVA <x> character often appears at line-ends in mid-paragraph,
suggesting that it may code for some kind of continuation token (like a
hyphen). In fact, quite a few pages end in the letter <x>, like f3r, f3v,
f5v, f6r, f6v, f17r, f17v, f18v, f24v, f29r, f31v, f33v, f41r, f48r, f54r,
f55v, f89r, f106r, f108r, and f115v. So, these may well be places where
sentences do cross page boundaries... though (naturally) this is just
guesswork. :-o

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


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