VMs: Blanks

["Maurizio M. Gavioli" <mmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On spare time, I am collating Takahashi's EVA transcription, mainly to get 
more confidence with the ms. I am finding relatively few problems in this 
kind of work.

With the exception of the unreadable symbols (actually very few of them, 
after all), the major problem is establishing the blanks. There seems to be 
a high number of 'half-blanks', so I am using many commas. I also have an 
increasing feeling that the blanks might be irrelevant (or irrelevant in 
some / most ? cases) or maybe purposeful but not as a blanks.

Now the question:

Does anyone with a greater familiarity with late medieval / early modern 
cyphers can summarize the status of the blank in them?

I mean: there are occurrences of cyphers ignoring the blanks altogether? 
And of cyphers *restoring* 'faked' blanks (randomly?) in the cripted text? 
Or, at the other end, of cyphers considering the blank a character in 
itself, taking part to the cripting algorithm?

Thanks,
        Maurizio


 Maurizio M. Gavioli -  VistaMare  Software
 via San Bernardo 5, I-16030 Pieve Ligure, ITALY
 http://www.vistamaresoft.com/

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