(26-04-2024, 11:44 PM)asteckley wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am in the process of compiling a database of the physical widths of words (and glyphs) and of the spaces between words, between words and drawing, between words and margins, etc. This may provide data for other related analyses of these ideas.
I have done a nearly complete manual transliteration with much more detailed spacing symbols than in publicly available transliterations, ranging from very small spaces to very large space (6 "flavors" + baseline jumps) hoping to understand the "subtle intent" behind them. An OCR would be more precise in placing glyphs, but I wanted the spacing values to be relative to (variable) size of the context: by contrast if the width of the previous glyph is abnormally small, the space looks larger.
Quote:Why should the drawings have any such effects on the token choices?
I suppose that the choice of shorter words before illustrations and at the end of the line is understandable in a system that does not allow split words (but they could have use hyphens). The longer words in these situations could be nulls maybe (like qotaiin and chotaiin)... Pure speculation, I don't know.
