Voynich text generation

[-JKP-]

Interesting, JKP. Did you respect word boundaries?

So one null is your main deviation from one-to-one? I suspect o is a likely candidate because you can use it for padding, breaking up illegal clusters.

Yes, one null is my main deviation. There is also one that might be a slight fudge, but not too much (there is a rationale behind it).

I really don't think of Voynich units as words. I never have. I think of them as tokens. If the VMS is a cipher, then token-length frequently does not mean word-length. Plus nulls are frequent in ciphers, including medieval ciphers.

I don't know if Voynichese is a cipher. Strange-looking shapes can mean a lot of things (numbers, sounds, etc.) and might be for convenience rather than to hide things (as in the alphabets the missionaries invented to try to express sounds from another language). But it might be a cipher, in which case tokens/blocks/units (or whatever you are comfortable calling them) and words are not necessarily synonymous.