Strong evidence of a structured four-phase system in the Voynich Manuscript

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Two small issues in preprocess_eva_seed.py:

1. It extracts at token_index = 0 the folio ID ($F) from the page header line:

f1r,0,a,0
...
f1v,0,a,0
...
f2r,0,b,228
...
f2v,0,b,228

The test line.strip().startswith("<!") doesn't work because line includes the line header.


2. It keeps comments between "<!" and ">" that should be skipped. For example:
f1r,13,doodle,13

Note: the removal of comments would also fix the page header issue because the page header is a comment. Something like this would work: line = line.remove(r"<!.*?>")


For checking the stability of results you could try You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the "reference" transliteration (no comments, no extended EVA). The Takeshi Takahashi transliteration is outdated (1999).