Opinions on: line as a functional unit

[ReneZ]

If the line weren't somehow fundamental to the process by which Voynichese text was composed, I can't imagine how such consistent and pervasive patterns would have arisen.

I would agree, but if it were, I would still have a hard time to see how they could have arisen.

Until a few years ago, the most unusual part of the Voynich MS text used to be the low bigram entropy and the word patterns, which are closely related to each other. I can think of ways how these could have arisen.

However, by now, both the general rightward/downward issue of Patrick and the line initial character alternations of Tavi have me flustered.
 
Currier had no idea of any of this. I would consider his Line As A Functional Unit an outdated concept.