(04-12-2018, 10:20 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To my eyes the ink is just as dark as the pi-like character - but that's a weird one as well.
The pi-like character is an uncommon VMS character, but here it does almost look like it was added in.
I have FREQUENTLY wondered if the VMS text was laid down in more than one pass, with spaces on the first pass to add the characters in the second pass.
The whole manuscript is slightly weird in terms of spacing, and the ink dips are not regular, and multiple-pass text might explain both of these oddities.
Why would it be done this way? If it were constructed text or cipher text, it might be easier to put it together in more than one pass.
The same would be true of steganographic text. If you were creating a "drawing" with letters or a textual message that is scattered on the page, then you would do it in more than one pass, put down the message first, and then flow the rest of the text around it.