[split] Half-spaces

[ReneZ]

I can only report what I have observed when I transliterated the MS in the late 1990's, and I have seen character spacing of all possible sizes. I have basically noticed a continuum, and not a specific 'half space'. The same observation was made by Gabriel Landini, who did the same transliteration in parallel.

We used the comma symbol to denote 'uncertain spaces' (not half spaces) in our transliteration files. The dot / period for a space was already used much earlier.

A problem is that people tended to rely on 'known words' to decide which spaces were 'real' or rather intentional, and which not.