16-12-2019, 11:45 PM
(16-12-2019, 01:54 PM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(16-12-2019, 09:31 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Rather than considering a virtual right margin in the final manuscript, I would prefer to consider a true margin in a source document, for example a draft.
If the hypothesis that the Voynich has (somehow) managed to preserve much of the formatting in the source document(s) it was derived from is correct, then it would be a reasonable prediction that the right hand edge in the source document was also straight.
In which case one might reason that the source document probably used hyphens, something that the EVA -m line-terminal groups also suggest.
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This "source document" hypothesis is shaky: it leads us to the conclusion that the source document had the same drawings. Otherwise, it's not clear why, preserving the supposed margin of the source document in certain places, the scribe did not take the trouble to preserve it in other places. E.g. in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the supposed "source document" receives no respect. Why would it be respected e.g. in the first paragraph of f22v?