23-11-2019, 09:33 AM
With location I mean the coordinates. We don't have any standard for that yet, but clearly the Jason Davies voyager uses one definition (which we can see) and "voynichese.com" uses another which we cannot see.
My idea would be to keep it simple and use the most original source: the digital images of the Beinecke.
Each page in the MS can be mapped to an image file, and each character in the MS has its location (X,Y) in pixels in one of these files.
At least the start point of each locus should be recorded, but better each character (which could be a bit complicated due to the different alphabets, but nothing that can't be solved).
Setting up such a database is too much work to do manually, so some tool should be employed.
Apart from coordinates, it should also record character size and orientation.
With this, one suddenly has access to a lot of new information, basically related to handwriting.
My idea would be to keep it simple and use the most original source: the digital images of the Beinecke.
Each page in the MS can be mapped to an image file, and each character in the MS has its location (X,Y) in pixels in one of these files.
At least the start point of each locus should be recorded, but better each character (which could be a bit complicated due to the different alphabets, but nothing that can't be solved).
Setting up such a database is too much work to do manually, so some tool should be employed.
Apart from coordinates, it should also record character size and orientation.
With this, one suddenly has access to a lot of new information, basically related to handwriting.