(12-04-2019, 05:08 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Nablator: since so many Voynichese glyphs look and behave like abbreviation signs, it may be worth taking into account?It would be naive to assume that they are abbreviations, despite the resemblances. There are far too many y, g and m are mostly at the end of lines...
The topic is about cryptography: whether the input text is abbreviated or not does not matter. Enciphering maps symbols to other symbols, whatever they are, and for that they have to be printable in the first place. Some (very rare) printed books managed to keep most of the "heavy" abbreviated Latin intact.