Identifying paragraphs in the Starred Parags section

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I noticed this curious detail on page f103v:

   

I take this as another bit of evidence that the puffs (one-leg gallows p f) on most lines were created by the Scribe as transmutations of other letters, in order to mark those lines as parag heads. 

As I see it, that was the case for most puffs, at least in this section, but not all.  There are a handful of lines with puffs, scattered over several pages, that cannot plausibly be considered parag heads, because they would break several of the criteria above -- in particular, if they are considered heads, there will be more parags than stars on those pages.

This would be similar to our present practice of capitalizing most words in article and section titles: it is a major use of capital letters, but not the only one.

By the way, IIRC in French, when words are capitalized in titles and such, it was (is?) custom to omit all diacritics, for aesthetics or typesetting reasons.  So "école" would become "Ecole", not "École".  Note that this practice would cause the digram statistics of "E" to be different from those of both "é" and "e"...

All the best, --jorge