Re: VMs: Folio and Quire numbers

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis tsalagi@xxxxxxxx wrote
Sent: 01 April 2004 05:21


>
> But seriously now.
>
> > O  M4NE  S7GA  L8LI  A  D82I  3VI  S9A  E  ST6I
> > NP8A  RTI  5BU  ST8RE  S...
> >
> > A reader familiar with Latin would have no problem
> > removing the nulls and redividing the words
> > correctly.
> >
> > The comment about "word ending rules" was just a way
> > to account for the fact some letters are more common
> > as finals than others. There is no requirement that
> > the rules be absolute; they could just be
> > suggestions, often but not always followed.
>
> This sounds interesting.  Can you account for the
> line-initial and -final effects?  That's one thing
> about
> Gordon Rugg's hypothesis that I like: it can.
>
> Dennis

I personally can see that in this scheme it would be fairly straightforward
to do that.

Jeff


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