[split] Half-spaces

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There are many examples, but I'll pick a simple one... if you look at 38v dain, and 39r, for example, on the first line of the second paragraph, you will see similar tokens...


On You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.   daiin (line 1)    dain (line 3).   daiin (line 4)

are written with half-spaces as d aiin and d ain and d aiin


Similarly, on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ...

qopchedy and opchekain

with half-spaces you get...

qop chedy and op chekain


Note how the half-break is in the same basic place. This is very frequently true.

Note also on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 2nd paragrah, lines 1 and 2, that eeedam and eees become eee dam and eee s if you record the half-spaces.



It took three transcripts before I felt I knew Voynichese AND the handwriting enough to recognize them. My fourth transcript records them.


Now, here's one that seems to be an exception in the pattern, but if you look closely at those that are anomalous, often you'll see the tail of the y from the line above it is in the way and so the extra space might be to avoid writing on top of the descender.


There are numerous reasons why I rejected the Takahashi transcript. For example, I saw eeee recorded as eee in several places (PLUS some of the ee are joined and I suspect they are to be considered as a unit and Takahashi didn't record this either), and daiin in different versions were recorded as though they were the same (not acceptable), but also because I noticed that spaces (FULL spaces) were sometimes ignored. With that many problems, I couldn't use it, so I made my own.