Why not positional variation?

[Barbrey]

I’m finding this a very informative thread. I’ve long thought a positional variant might be possible. It just seems so complicated. But maybe it really is that complicated, though nothing else was being used similarly in the time period. 

But then again, it might still be simple but with an extra step involved. I’m a bit obsessed with spaces because of some of the imagery. I’m wondering if anyone has derived a different “alphabet” for the Voynich based on the last character of a word and the succeeding (after the space) first character of each word combined into a binary glyph.   For “fun” some time ago, I went through a dense page that should have at least the majority of the alphabet included. I recorded the combos and found the number of combos did realistically reflect a possible alphabet of about 28 if I recollect correctly. The most frequent binary glyph was Eva -yo. The most frequent letter in Latin is “i”. The only binary glyph on the page repeatedin sequence three times was “yo”. And that made sense because I repeated 3x is iii. So Roman numerals. And thus perhaps a substitution cipher after all that would still account for Torsten’s findings, the rigidity of the text etc. 

I was sure, however, that someone had already thought of doing this but I’ve never seen it so thought I would ask. At any rate, perhaps something like this could be involved? It would mean the actual meaningful  content of the text would be greatly reduced.