How do paragraph-initial gallows effect a paragraph?

[Skoove]

For one thing, the gallows is not just a 'start of paragraph' marker, in the following sense:

If one simply removes it, then the next character becomes the line initial character, but this character does not have the same distribution as all other line-initial characters.
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I have not yet tried to understand this better, but feel that it could be important.

I think this is part of the confusion for me. I find it difficult to explain how a paragraph initial gallow isn't just a marker since there are only four of them. In what system could one of the four gallows provide more information than just a marker (i.e. a letter or part of an actual word)? Granted if Voynichese is a real language then there might be rules involved that don't conform to other known languages, but if it is some sort of cipher then I can only see it as a marker.