Cribs in the Voynich MS

[Jorge_Stolfi]

But I think most people understand what features I refer to when I mention LAAFU

I suppose a lot of the LAAFU research and discussion has happened during the 20 years I have been hibernating, so I am not sure I know what those features are, exactly.

I understand that the plot of the frequency of X as a function of the position along the line has bumps and dips near the beginning of the line and near the end of the line, for various choices of X. Is that all?

I suppose that the stats consider only paragraph text minus the head and tail lines, correct?

And I suppose that the position can be measured in words, EVA characters, "elements" (like "aiin", "ch", "cth"), or other, and divided by the length of the line, correct?

(I came to believe that measuring line length and position EVA characters may be the best option. Counting words has the problem that transcribers will make errors when deciding whether a space is a work break, and those errors probably vary near the ends of the line.  Counting "elements" makes the results potentially dependent on the definition of "element" that one uses...  And anyway the choice should have a small impact on the relative possitions.)

All the best, --stolfi