An explanation of the Voynich Manuscript text

[Torsten]

If there's anything else you think I'm unaware of, please let me know.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. describes vertical patterns for the VMS. Emma May Smith has described an example of this kind You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. The word [otaiin] is used on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. six times. Each time as either the third or second to last word in the line. Another example for this vertical pattern is the usage of [chor] on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Different sides of the same folio often lie in different clusters, so different word frequencies isn't a problem.

On every page something new is happening. All you have to do is to search for a rarely used glyph combinations. You will always find hard to explain patterns for them. See for instance the usage of [ll] on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

The glyph sequence [on] only exists 5 times within the VMS. But three of this words occur on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. 

Normally the [m]-glyph is used as last glyph in a line. But not on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. On this page even two paragraph initial words end with [m].

Generating text by hand the way using state transition tables in the obvious way would be time-consuming, even slower than Gordon Rugg's method.   But I haven't put much effort into finding a fast way of doing it, and my words are more realistic.

As far as I know, Gordon Rugg was the first to suggest a well-defined method by which meaningless text could be generated which resembles the Voynich text.   His approach is probably a subset of mine, but they are not equivalent.   Mine is more general, and I arrived at it from a different starting point.

So there's still a lot of work to be done to make a watertight theory.

That it is possible to describe the words in the VMS using your state transition table is indeed an interesting observation. But by describing the words in the VMS you didn't have described the manuscript. Anyway, it is one thing to describe something and another to give a efficient method to reproduce it.