05-05-2020, 12:52 PM
(05-05-2020, 05:01 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The VMS is full of these patterns. They are not always in square blocks, some of them are on the diagonal.
"It's not just an interesting possibility, there are many signs that the text (at least on some pages) was laid down in more than one pass. I've collected many examples and once you start to see them, you can't help saying to yourself, "Whoa, what exactly is going on here?" -JKP- voynich.ninja 29-02-2016
Yes, what's exactly going on, that is the question.
That the blocks vary in "shape" means that they are "split" across vords, not across characters. If you split them across characters it's trivial to make them perfectly square or perfectly diagonal. If the blocks are sparated on vords' borders instead, it's impossible to keep alignment unless you use a great deal of filler.
I think what can be done is to perform the multipass analysis in those cases where blocks are betrayed by baseline jumps, and then, over a good sample of collected information, look and see if some pattern is revealed. Not only the pattern, but, effectively, the rule or algorithm according to which this pattern is formed. As there is no uniform shape of blocks, there must be some rule. The question is whether it is uniform, or whether it is set up in each particular case by some markers.