Ink/pen dynamics and the rhythms of writing

[Jorge_Stolfi]

My hope was that differences in ink darkness in the VMs could be used to gain insight into when a scribe paused during writing, since that could have implications for an encoding method.

This is unlikely, because the "encoding" (whatever that meant) was almost certainly done on paper.  It would be stupid to compose a complicated text directly on vellum.  Therefore the Scribe almost certainly was not 'encoding" as he wrote but merely clean-copying from an already "encoded" draft.

For example, if the writer consistently wrote [chor] as [cho] (pause) [r], or [char] as [ch] (pause) [ar], that could potentially reveal something about the meaningful units or building-blocks of Voynichese.

But often the anomalously heavier strokes, that could be places where the Scribe went back and corrected or reinforced what he had already written, are often just part of a glyph.  So those interruptions do not seem to occur at semantically significant boundaries.  It is as if the text, for the Scribe, was just a bunch of strokes -- not even a bunch of glyphs...

All the best, --jorge