RE: VMs: Re: entropy, shorthand systems, gallows characters

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If Philip Neal is looking in: do you have a list of specific places where 
> you think line transposition is happening (based on the handwriting)? If 
> so, have you looked for any content-based evidence to support it on those 
> pages? ie where (say) words on alternate lines are more closely related 
> than words on adjacent lines?

This has only ever been a suggestion, not a definite claim. It seems
to me that the redundant nature of the Voynich text implies that
any underlying plaintext must have been shorter. I am interested
in places in the MS where there is evidence of very cramped writing.

Philip Neal


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