The Naibbe cipher

[Yavernoxia]

As I mentioned elsewhere, one could also imagine treating the paragraph-opener gallows glyph (e.g., p) or prefix (e.g., pch) as a null, simply meant to denote the start of a paragraph.

But shouldn't we then find the p glyph at the start of every paragraph? Why would p be a null that denotes the start of a paragraph, but is only used sometimes? What could be the rule for choosing when to use a null paragraph opener and when not to?

I suppose it could certainly be a graphical-stylistic choice but to be honest, browsing the manuscript, I would have used a null paragraph opener much more frequently than the scribe(s) did, if we accept the null paragraph opener hypothesis.