(17-09-2017, 10:10 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Is not this discussion of character positioning heavily relied on the implicit assumption that the Voynichese spaces are spaces, and that there are no underlay spaces where we don't observe them?
It is very heavily reliant on the assumption that the spaces are spaces.
Many times I've suggested the spaces might be contrived (and I truly think they might be) but there seems to be a certain resistance to this idea (both in informal discussions and in statistical approaches and in the variously announced "solutions"), so I finally decided, okay, there are quite a few people who want to treat the spaces as literal (and maybe there are good reasons for it), so let's discuss it from that point of view and see where it gets us and if it doesn't get us anywhere, then we can move on to the next possibility.
I don't know if this is a reasonable way to think about it, but that's where I stand right now. I'm deferring to the majority for the time being.