I don't want to complicate this thread with too many issues, but there is another interesting dynamic on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
If you lean back from the screen and look at the spacing, you might notice there is a wider vertical space between tokens in the second paragraph. It looks like it may have been written in two blocks, a narrow block on the left and a wider block on the right. Note how the larger block (the right-hand block), also "starts" with a benched gallows char, just as the beginning of the left block starts with a benched gallows:
There are numerous folios with this odd alignment of spaces—sections of text that look like blocks may have been added in sections rather than in long continuous lines. Sometimes the sections appear to be diagonal rather than vertical. Do some of the gallows chars act as a "signal" for some of these spatial divisions in the text?
This is one of the many aspects of the VMS that is not reflected in transcripts.
If you lean back from the screen and look at the spacing, you might notice there is a wider vertical space between tokens in the second paragraph. It looks like it may have been written in two blocks, a narrow block on the left and a wider block on the right. Note how the larger block (the right-hand block), also "starts" with a benched gallows char, just as the beginning of the left block starts with a benched gallows:
There are numerous folios with this odd alignment of spaces—sections of text that look like blocks may have been added in sections rather than in long continuous lines. Sometimes the sections appear to be diagonal rather than vertical. Do some of the gallows chars act as a "signal" for some of these spatial divisions in the text?
This is one of the many aspects of the VMS that is not reflected in transcripts.