Character entropy of Voynichese

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Hi Torsten, what I'm speaking of is not gallows characters as such, but the "gallows coverage"- the  phenomenon whereby the gallows' loop covers the subsequent characters. It's discussed in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and subsequent posts. I'm not aware of anybody's having systematically investigated that and looking if any rules are exhibited.

I've been working on it for years and the rewards are small.

The problem with these patterns in the VMS (and there are quite a few of them that I've been systematically working through) is that one can spend weeks, sometimes months, looking into each one and come to the conclusion that a specific variation is probably not meaningful, and then one starts on another and gets the same result.

For example, I spent quite a long time trying to determine if the length of the tail or its angle was meaningful for the EVA-y character and it APPEARS that it is not, but... I'm only about 75% sure.