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

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Picking up the good old habit of responding
to my own E-mail....

--- Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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).

I am pleased to see that John Grove has also
observed the same two features independently.

Note that both could be explained if the 
VMs were a fair copy of a draft.

This would also explain the following 'problem':
It is rather generally accepted that the plant
drawings
were made first and the text filled in later. There
are
however occasions where a 'loop' in the branches of
a plant leaves a hole just large anough for a single
word to fit in. This could indicate some kind of 
planning (and a draft document) or, of course, 
a variety of other things:
- text is meaningless anyway
- use of nulls allows words to assume alomst arbitrary
  length

Cheers, Rene


		
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