[split] Half-spaces

[ReneZ]

But we don't know anything about "ni" because there is only one.

The difference is that the VMS is 200 folios and there is a pattern to the half-spaces that is associated with common blocks of characters.

I cannot confirm this from my experience.

Let me explain what I wrote before in a different manner.

Gabiel Landini and I have used in the past a comma symbol to denote an uncertain space.
We discussed this issue for a while.

Had we not called it an uncertain space, but a half space, we would have ended up with two problems instead of one, because there are also intermediate forms between "no space" and "half space", and between "half space" and full space.

Furthermore, full spaces come at a variety of different widths.

I can imagine that a scribe would develop some standard distances between some character pairs, and these may look wider depending on each pair. If there are different scribes, then these habits could also be different for each scribe.