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

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 09:48 10/04/2005 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> There are also places where it seemed as if the
> first letter of every line was written first, and
> then the page filled in. (I think it was in the Bio
> section).

Can you please try to remember what kind of observation you based this on? 
We it perhaps the ink weight variation (fading as the quill empties, and 
different from the first column from subsequent letters) or some other factor?

> There are also places where the text would not
> appear to have been written top left to bottom right
> in the usual manner (e.g. lines filled in later).
> I also remember getting suspicious that in some
> cases line 'N' had a conventient gap such that
> line 'N+1' could intrude it with a gallows.
> This last one did not occur so often that it was
> definitely more than 'chance'.

Perhaps in those cases we might conclude that line N+1 was written before 
line N? This would be consistent with Philip Neal's tentative two-pass 
every-other-line hypothesis (ie if line N+1 was in the first pass, and line 
N in the second pass).

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


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