Voynichese-like Characteristics of a keyless "Enn'agrammaton" encoding system

[eggyk]

I meant: if you want to mimic the positional nature of Voynichese glyphs and lower the 2nd order character entropy (h2) to match the h2 of Voynichese, you need more constraints: enforcing many rare or forbidden combinations one way or another is a way to achieve this. Inserting spaces is a way but it would create (too) many short words to look like Voynichese.

Using one character (letter or symbol) for several plaintext letters makes the next character less predictable after any given character, because there are more possibilities. This is the wrong way to go: if you want a ciphertext that is more Voynichese-like, you need to make the next character more predictable.

Surely its the opposite for this system? As there are fewer overall symbols, the chance that the next letter is any of those specific symbols is higher. 

I used your link to test a paragraph from english to cipher (using 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I) instead of the squares in my post. 

Here is the plaintext, curtesy of Koen's entropy essay:

h0 = 4.91, h1 = 4.29, h2 = 3.13

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"in the same post i tried to push my approach further which took me unwittingly into verbose cipher territory a verbose cipher is basically a cipher that obfuscates by adding unnecessary stuff in a very simple example i could verbosely obfuscate the word voynich by adding a v after evert letter vvovyvnvivcvhv if voynichese is the result of a verbose cipher i could try to reverse this by rewriting common glyph clusters bigrams trigrams as single glyphs for example i could replace dy by  and run the entropy test again to see what changed after lots of trial and error i got almost but not quite normal entropy values this way apparently rene did better with some method which i am really looking forward to learning more about as rene also noticed however the rewriting ngrams method has a significant drawback it makes words really short as you can see in the voynich vvovyvnvivcvhv example above verbose encoding has the effect of lengthening words and voynichese words arent excessively long to begin with"

And this is the ciphertext of 8 symbols used in the OP:

h0 = 3.17, h1 = 3.06, h2 = 2.74

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"CE GCB FADB EEFG C GFCBB GE EGFC DH AEEFEAAC BGFGCBF GCCAC GEED DB GEGCGGCECDH CEGE GBFAEFB ACECBF GBFFCGEFH A GBFAEFB ACECBF CF AAFCAADDH A ACECBF GCAG EABGFAAGBF AH ABBCEC GEEBABFFAFH FGGBB CE A GBFH FCDEDBBGADEDBC AEGDB GBFAEFBDH EABGFAAGB GCB GEFB GEHECAC AH ABBCEC A G ABGBF BGBFG DBGGBF GGEGHGEGCGAGCG CB GEHECACBFB CF GCB FBFGDG EB A GBFAEFB ACECBF C AEGDB GFH GE FBGBFFB GCCF AH FBGFCGCEC AEDDEE CDHEC ADGFGBFF ACCFADF GFCCFADF AF FCECDB CDHECF BEF BGADEDB C AEGDB FBEDAAB BH AH AEB FGE GCB BEGFEEH GBFG ACACE GE FBB GCAG ACAECBB ABGBF DEGF EB GFCAD AEB BFFEF C CEG ADEFFG AGG EEG FHCGB EEDFAD BEGFEEH GADGBF GCCF GAH AEEAFBEGDH FBEB BCB ABGGBF GCGC FEDB DBGCEB GCCAC C AD FBADDH DEEDCEC BEFGAFB GE DBAFECEC DEFB AAEGG AF FBEB ADFE EEGCABB CEGBGBF GCB FBGFCGCEC ECFADF DBGCEB CAF A FCCECBCAAEG BFAGAAAD CG DADBF GEFBF FBADDH FCEFG AF HEG AAE FBB CE GCB GEHECAC GGEGHGEGCGAGCG BGADEDB AAEGB GBFAEFB BEAEBCEC CAF GCB BBBBAG EB DBECGCBECEC GEFBF AEB GEHECACBFB GEFBF AFBEG BGABFFCGBDH DEEC GE ABCCE GCGC"

h2 appears to decrease with the cipher applied, not increase. This is also using a simple abc =1, def = 2 system. I would expect that by shuffling these letters around in their groups you could reduce entropy further.