[split] Big f116v spillover thread.

[Koen G]

We did not assume meaning at all. We looked at the letter shapes and only used those that could be reliably determined, regardless of expected meaning. For example, we did not use those 8-shapes, because they don't quite work for "d" or short-s, they are just too wonky and unreliable.

There is no crossbar in the long-s at the end of "gas". There is only the horizontal line running from "g" through "a". This may be a connecting stroke plus another one through "a", perhaps. And then there is the onset of "m", which leaves a dot. These combined cause the illusion that there may have been a stroke through the long vertical. What we see is quite consistent with the way this author writes long-s.