Re: VMs: Word Length Distribution

[knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dennis,

Stolfi did use EVA, as you say. He modified it in the *direction* of 
Currier but did not use Currier as I misstated. See previous post. I 
have heard of BITRANS but will have to look it up to see what it is. 
I think I can tailor EVA to fit ........ any of a multitude of 
preferences....... Which? I have my candidates but how can I guess 
whether they might be equivalent to "er" and "re" in English? "ai", 
"in", "al", "ar", "ol", "or", "ch", "sh", and "qo" will automatically 
separate all but a small percentage of the other letters into pairs. 
Some occur very seldom. With further manipulation, a 16 by 16 grid 
(or maybe square alphabet-sized?) would be about right. How could 
every square have been used? No matter what I have tried, there are 
always exceptions. Almost like a real language. Anyone been down that 
road? 


Ciao ........ Knox 
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    On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 at 22:41:47 -0500
    Dennis wrote:

     In fact I see Stolfi used EVA.  I wonder what you
    would see if you converted it to Currier, as one can
    easily do with BITRANS?  Could this be related to the
    fact that EVA represents some common glyphs with more
    than one letter?  Currier doesn't do this.  
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