That's why I mentioned in Post #31 that I had to check the original to find out if it was the "-is" loop (standing in for "-es") or if it was a paragraph or line marker. It was used both ways.
This is something I've mentioned in other threads because it's hauntingly similar to the way m or g shows up in the VMS. Some scribes used the "-is" abbreviation both as a linguistic suffix and as an "end" marker for lines or paragraphs (especially in German manuscripts).
So, you think it would be easy to spot which one is intended, but medieval spelling is so inconsistent (and often ungrammatical), that I frequently have to go back to the original to check. When I gather samples, I try to find the ones that are unambiguous, where there's enough context to know for absolute certain which one it is, but that's not possible 100% of the time.
This is something I've mentioned in other threads because it's hauntingly similar to the way m or g shows up in the VMS. Some scribes used the "-is" abbreviation both as a linguistic suffix and as an "end" marker for lines or paragraphs (especially in German manuscripts).
So, you think it would be easy to spot which one is intended, but medieval spelling is so inconsistent (and often ungrammatical), that I frequently have to go back to the original to check. When I gather samples, I try to find the ones that are unambiguous, where there's enough context to know for absolute certain which one it is, but that's not possible 100% of the time.