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RE: "minims" and "word endings" - pfeaster - 24-01-2022
(10-01-2022, 07:19 PM)pfeaster Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Has anyone had a chance yet to evaluate the pros and cons of François Parmentier's "Bax" font and associated transcription scheme?
Following up on this, I installed the NVA ("New Voynich Alphabet") or "Bax" font, available You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (TTF), so that I could try it out. François Parmentier's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. covers much of the logic behind its design but doesn't provide any instruction in how to use it practically. So here's a key I prepared myself for reference:
NVA is most notable for decomposing some EVA glyphs into multiple graphemes, including:
- EVA a = NVA ci
- EVA o = NVA co
- EVA r = NVA ir
- EVA s = NVA cr
- EVA y = NVA cy
- EVA l = NVA iy (more apparent in the article than the font)
- EVA q = NVA qu
- EVA d = NVA cd
- EVA j = NVA im
- EVA m = NVA cm
- EVA n = NVA in
- EVA b = NVA cn
- EVA h = NVA -c
- EVA T (benched t) = NVA -T
- EVA K (benched k) = NVA -K (second glyph is corrupted -- entering it plays havoc with spacing)
- EVA P (benched p) = NVA -P
- EVA F (benched f) = NVA -F
The accompanying article also covers various unusual-looking sequences that can be transcribed plausibly using these same elements combined in atypical ways (see Tables 2 and 3).
NVA still wouldn't accommodate all the ambiguities in the text, but it might at least let us isolate some of them more narrowly than EVA does. So, for example, instead of being torn between EVA [s] and [r] as two entirely different options, we might only be torn between NVA [i] and [c], without any doubt about the following NVA [r].
I'm not sure I agree with everything in Parmentier's scheme, but I see a lot that I like. What do others think?