Discussion of "A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript"

[ReneZ]

It is based on the scenario of a 'dictionary'.

The Voynich author would have made a list of plain text words and corresponding code words. In this case I just replace the code word by the Roman numeral for the index of the word.

Now assume that he started off with a list of common words. In my case there were 400 common words, sorted alphabetically. The first entry was the indefinite article 'a', which ended up as the roman numeral 'I'.
Then, as he started translating, he would encounter 'new words' not yet on the list, and he would assign these words the next free number.

This results in a situation where similar words appear near each other.
This is not so pronounced for a prose text like Poe's story, but would give a better result for a text with a changing subject matter.

I selected the 400 common words as the 400 most common words in the first half of the text.

Clearly, lots of other scenarios could be used.
I'm still playing along with this, but won't have much more today.