[Blog Post] Rightward and Downward in the Voynich Manuscript - Patrick Feaster

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In order to investigate the issues pointed out by Emma, I quickly edited one of the scripts to remove all white space and work on character position in the line, rather than word position. Positions are still mapped into 10 discrete slots.

The plot for '[NOTq]o' vs 'qo' (where I inserted an L at the beginning of each line, in order to match line initial o)
   

The plot for 'al' vs 'ol'
   

Of course, these experiments are different, since strings like 'ol' or 'ko' are counted even when they appear "inside" words and not as prefixes or suffixes. But if one compares with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), it is possible to see that the ratios are qualitatively very similar. So (unless I messed up something) it seems that the phenomenon does not strictly depend on words and spaces but on actual horizontal positions in the line.