[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I didn't look too closely, but I do not get the impression that the retracing significantly changed the original text.

Yes.  The person who retraced that MS presumably was fluent in Italian, so he made few if any mistakes.  He knew what each letter was supposed to be.

As I understand it, that would be an important feature of the Voynich retracing hypothesis. (?)

As I see it, the first Retracer (my Rt1), who retraced most of the text, was very careful and probably learned the Voynichese alphabet as he went along, to the same extent as we have.  Even so, he made many mistakes where the original text had faded.  For one thing, he apparently thought that Ih was a letter distinct from Ch, not just a slightly distorted instance of the latter.

The second (Rt2), who retouched only a few glyphs here and there, was less careful and probably had a very limited understanding of the alphabet.  And he felt entitled to "enhance" the drawings.

All the best, --stolfi