Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[Jorge_Stolfi]

In my examination of the text, that is simply an “error”.

But that is where personal assumptions come in.  In my view, there is indeed only one Sh glyph, and all the variations of plume size, shape, position, and connectivity are just normal variations in the way it is rendered by the Scribe.  Thus transcribing each variant with a different code is worse than wasted work: it means contaminating the transcription with meaningless noise, and forcing the users of the transcription to waste time removing that noise (by mapping all the variants to the same code).

All the best, --stolfi