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

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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? 

Yes. I am not talking about those cases where
there is a clear separate column of separate
characters in front, but I remember that the 
first characters of each line formed a nice
left margin, while the distance between first
and second character of each line was somewhat
variable.

> 
> >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).

Yes, this would be the suspicion, but it may not have
occurred in a statistically significant number of 
occasions.

Cheers, Rene


		
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