(09-03-2016, 01:34 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.These are probably just ways to make the "capital" more ornate. Compare it to medieval miniatures. There are actually pretty good parallels for that in other manuscripts, I've seen them posted somewhere before. Probably someone here can repost them.
I think they probably aren't. I would compare it to a medieval miniature if I thought it were a fair or meaningful comparison. Is it? "Ornate" gallows seem to extend over or span a specific set of glyphs which you would have me believe is random. Which would mean the decision about when to get fancy with the gallows characters is random and that even how you will get fancy is arbitrary. Occam's Razor would work for that scenario only if the text were random. And if it's random anyway what is there to get fancy about?
Also, could you clarify what you mean by the "capital" in your initial statement? I'm not sure I have a definition for that word that makes sense in that context.