Glyph counts between Gallows

[Koen G]

This is not specifically about your work, Julian, but I think in general parsing is not considered enough. Too often, people take EVA as "Voynichese", while questions of parsing should really come between EVA and certain statistical analyses. Basically anything that focuses on characters: character entropy, glyph counts etc. EVA was never intended to "correctly" represent Voynichese, just to be able to type it into a computer. 

I also don't think it was Takahashi's intention to provide a "correct" parsing of the MS, just to somehow represent it in a computer-readable form using EVA. While I greatly appreciate and make use of his efforts, we must keep in mind that at the time he was a biology major who self-describes as, I quote, "an idiot who spent his college days deciphering Voynich".

I think your research is really interesting, so I hate the sound of my own complaining, but I am just afraid that this is an analysis of EVA, not necessarily of the VM. Between EVA and character-based analyses looms the matter of parsing, which is in my opinion the greatest challenge we face.