Floating gallows

[pfeaster]

Are there any significant differences of gallows and their positioning in Currer a and b?

One difference that may be relevant to this thread is in the ratio of words with gallows to words without gallows.  In Currier A, the probability of a word token in paragraphic text containing a gallows glyph is around 48.5%, while in Currier B it's around 55%.

Those figures are both arguably "close" to 50%, but they're skewed away from it in different directions.  Whatever it is that gallows glyphs "do," it seems they might need to do it just a little less often in Currier A than they do in Currier B.

I'm looking very much forward to tavie's conference paper on gallows positioning and expect we'll have some excellent new fodder for discussion on this topic in a week and a half.