About the construction of lines in the MS

[pfeaster]

Is there significant evidence against claims (1)-(7)?  Again, the mere observation of statistical anomalies around line breaks is not a valid argument, unless it can be shown that such anomalies cannot be simply side effects of the SLA. 

I believe there is evidence that speaks against claim (2) in particular.

Since I don't want to be accused of forcing my own work on anyone, I'll point here to a finding by a couple other researchers -- namely, statistical anomalies among the second words of lines in Quire 20, as discovered by Emma May Smith and Marco Ponzi:

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How could the tendency of the second words of lines to begin disproportionately with [Sh] and [s] be explained as a byproduct of an algorithm for splitting lines based on word length?