(18-03-2024, 12:52 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I 'cheated' in a sense, in that I used a plain text in Italian rather than Latin. Italian has a much cleaner split of the text in vowels and consonants, and it was relatively easy to come up with a mapping of Voynichese 'clusters' into vowels and consonants.
I've been studying Latin syllabification. It's not easy to find definitive rules, especially for medieval Latin, not classical nor modern ecclesiastic Latin, and there are many contradictory statements in books. From my experiments running an imperfect script (it does not take into account etymology and I'm not sure about a few cases) there seems to be only about a thousand different syllables in long medieval Latin texts.
There is an interesting passage about the properties of Latin syllables in Leon Battista Alberti, De componendis cyfris, written ca. 1466. If he had a specific idea in mind to exploit them for cryptography, he didn't tell.