(17-06-2025, 01:46 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thus rotating a character by 90 degrees is not a good idea, as strokes in the "good" directions will become strokes in the "bad" directions. The main strokes of the Voynichese glyphs, like e and the two sides of the o, are traced the SW, S, and N directions. The plumes of s, r, Sh, n, and part of the loops of d, m, t, k etc seem to be traced mostly in the "bad" direction.
I have limited experience with quills, but I didn't mean I have none. I've prepared a few quills from scratch myself and practiced writing with them, including the Voynichese glyphs. So, I'm familiar with the mechanics of writing, although definitely not at the professional scribe level.
I think writing v in the 4 directions is quite easy with the quill, certainly not harder than writing l (especially the pointy kind) and considerably easier than writing any of the gallows characters. Which to me means that whatever goal the inventor of the script pursued, it was not stenography. Or if it was stenography, then the result is a complete failure.