Levenshtein distance line by line

[RobGea]

When checking several folios, it is noticeable that very short words are often written at the end of the line which look like "appended". Of course this has an influence on the results.

Currier noted a similar thing :

"The ends of the lines contain what seems to be, in many cases, meaningless symbols: little groups of letters which don't occur anywhere else,
and just look as if they were added to fill out the line to the margin. "

Though there seems to be some debate as to exactly what Currier meant.