The question of concatenation

[Emma May Smith]

The end of one word appears to have some kind of effect on the next. So chaining together two strings could cause some alteration in the glyphs where the ends of the strings are adjacent. Also, the longer a string becomes the more like it is to wrap round the end of a line. Line patterns could also alter the glyphs involved.

For example:

• Take two strings: [chol daiin] and [keor al].
  
• Putting them together could (as an example) produce something like: [chol daiin okeor al]. With an [o] inserted before [k] due to the preceding [n].
  
• But if the new string wrapped round the end of a line after [keor], it might result in: [chol daiin okeor // sal]. With an [s] inserted before [a] at the start of a new line.
  

Neither of the examples in step one and two are definite, but they seem to be the kind of thing which happens as the Voynich text is built up from "ideal" words to composed text.

(I think that understanding this layer of transformation between ideal and composed text should currently be our main focus when analysing the text.)