15-03-2016, 02:45 PM
exactly!
Everybody is always talking about alphabet and letters, the question is which letters we see.
I don't like a numeral presentation either because then the transcription is "hard-coded" as well.
We need to "soft-code" the transcription. That means: 1 letter can mean more than 1 thing.
Soft code
Currently i am working (a.o. many things) on diplomatic handwritten text from between year 1450-1500.
What you also see there that 1 letter can be represented differently not only at beginning-middle-end but also also in relation to other letters.
That is the reason the "Torsten" theory is interesting at this moment for me, because he also writes something like that. (but i'am still examining the pdf).
Q: Has anybody got diplomatic letters from the Vatican by any chance?
Pen strokes
About a year ago i broke down the letters into pen-strokes. (This subject is discussed somewhere else on this site as well)
Then i shifted letters around and try to find a match with other languages. The conclusion was: no possibilities.
Reading about the Bacon cipher and his examples, where he uses very tiny differences in font types to cipher,
made me realize the small error there: i simply took a transcription and replaced the letters by pen-strokes.
That is wrong because if you look closely there are major and also small letter-differences. If you really want to do a good job,
you compare the pen strokes at microscopic level and transcribe it using those.
Everybody is always talking about alphabet and letters, the question is which letters we see.
I don't like a numeral presentation either because then the transcription is "hard-coded" as well.
We need to "soft-code" the transcription. That means: 1 letter can mean more than 1 thing.
Soft code
Currently i am working (a.o. many things) on diplomatic handwritten text from between year 1450-1500.
What you also see there that 1 letter can be represented differently not only at beginning-middle-end but also also in relation to other letters.
That is the reason the "Torsten" theory is interesting at this moment for me, because he also writes something like that. (but i'am still examining the pdf).
Q: Has anybody got diplomatic letters from the Vatican by any chance?
Pen strokes
About a year ago i broke down the letters into pen-strokes. (This subject is discussed somewhere else on this site as well)
Then i shifted letters around and try to find a match with other languages. The conclusion was: no possibilities.
Reading about the Bacon cipher and his examples, where he uses very tiny differences in font types to cipher,
made me realize the small error there: i simply took a transcription and replaced the letters by pen-strokes.
That is wrong because if you look closely there are major and also small letter-differences. If you really want to do a good job,
you compare the pen strokes at microscopic level and transcribe it using those.