Suggestions for decomposition of the Voynichese characters

[Anton]

This my table has been prepared for the draft of our submission to the European HCC of this year, but since the submission was declined, the stuff is unlikely to be ever released, especially given that it did not have enough time to progress from the draft version.

The table, obviously, is also a raw draft and is posted into the forum for the sake of discussion, reference, and possible further development. It builds upon Cham's CLS and also incorporates ideas from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Here's how the table is to be interpreted. Each cell shows a combination of two "basic" shapes: the first one taken from the respective row on the left, the second one taken from the respective column on the top. The intersection of a basic shape with itself stands not for a "combination", but rather shows whether this basic shape does occur standalone in the VMS or not. If a combination or a basic shape does not occur in the VMS, the respective intersection cell is grayed out. The order matters. For example, e plus dash yields c, but dash plus e yields h. Some combinations are yet indefinite (as suggested by more than one character in a single cell).