The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

There are 5 "<%>=daiin" in starps-fu.ivt. You can ignore the rest because errors or something.

As I wrote in the paper, there are several places in the SPS where it looks like two or more parags were joined by the Scribe in one parag, with two or more stars in the margin but no obvious break.  In particular, there are large blocks like that on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (with estimated 3+11 parags, based on the number of stars) and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (6+4 parags) . (Curiously those are two facing pages of the bifolio currently at the center of the quire, but the missing bifolio should have been between them.)   

In the transcription, the parag boundaries within those blocks had to be guessed based on secondary clues like the spacing and parallelism of the baselines. You will find all those cases listed and discussed in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..   At the time I still had not discovered that daiin probably meant use, so sometimes I (and previous transcribers) guessed a parag break just before a line that stared with daiin. But anyway the correct breaks must be in the middle the lines, so they will only be determined by comparison with the SBJ.

If you care, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a transcription with all those dubious line blocks excluded.  It has no parags beginning with daiin.  (And You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the script that removes the bad blocks.)

All the best, --stolfi