Cribs in the Voynich MS

[Jorge_Stolfi]

 There is clearly some positional dependence within the lines

But, again, the point is that such positional dependencies are created by the trivial line-breaking algorithm.  For any text, any language, any page width.   Even for algorithmically generated gibberish.  As long as the words come in different sizes.   Because a line break will be more likely to be inserted before a long word than before a short one.

In fact, the first word being longer than average is indirect evidence that the Scribe was copying some draft text, ignoring its line breaks, and putting new line breaks on his own. It rather excludes the possibility that the Scribe was generating each word at random after deciding to start a new line.  Or that the line breaks were determined by the Author, and he created each line the same way.

All the best, --stolfi