The gallows intrusion, the baseline jumps and multipass

[Anton]

Here I provide my tentative interpretation of the multipass nature of a select paragraph from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. based on the changes in baseline trends.

The "main" text block is blue. The one to the left, the green one, is distinguished by different slope. It's difficult to tell whether it was added before or later. Judging by its ledt alignment and the absence of left alignment of the blue block, I'd say that the green block was written first, and then the blue block was written, unless there was some careful planning in advance or the green block is just a filler.

Both green and blue blocks were written top to bottom - or, at least, there is no evidence that they were written in BTT fashion.

The red block was written after the blue block and it was written BTT. It's detected with the last subline of the red block making a jump to rise above the r in chear of the blue, and then it all develops BTT as I described in my previous post.

The black block was written after the red block as if to fill the space or to provide the right alignment. But I'm not sure if it's simply filler or not.