(20-02-2020, 12:40 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Especially since we don't know if height or tail-length changes the interpretation of a glyph. There are Asian languages where a tiny little serif changes the meaning of a syllable. Even in Hebrew, the distinction between Hey and Chet is difficult for some people to see and much more subtle than the variations among VMS glyphs.
There is a way to tell when small variations are significant in a long text written in a (real) language: compare a large amount of text and see if these variations appear globally or if they are more likely to be a local quirk or mistake by a tired or clumsy scribe. The length of tails is probably not meaningful because different scribes had different habits as the study (to be published) by Lisa Fagin Davis will show. Another example, V101 transliterates some loosely written a as ei in Q20, which may be wrong. Also, choosing distinct symbols/letters in the transliteration alphabet for some variants of glyphs when the actual writing in the VMS shows a continuum is probably a wrong choice.