(06-09-2025, 10:24 AM)quimqu Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You are right. I don't see if these autocorrelation calculations on the Voynich are really very useful.
A statistic that should be more robust (in the sense of being independent of word splitting/joining, whether by the Author, Scribe, or Transcribers) would be the distribution of "number of glyphs between successive occurrences of X, ignoring spaces", where X could be gallows or any other selected subset of the glyphs.
It might let us infer whether the puff gallows
p,
f on parag head lines stand for simple gallows
t,
k or combinations like
te,
ke
(Although it is possible that
p with hook =
te or
et,
p without hook =
t. There is a word somewhere that is something like
cheopy (the
ch and
y may be something else) where the
e is the hook of the
p, and the
o is nested under the arm of the
p, between the hook and the leg...)
Unfortunately I don't see how one could choose X for other languages that would allow meaningful comparison of the distributions. Unless the shape of the distribution for the VMS turns out to be really weird, like two peaks at 4 and 7 glyphs apart...
All the best, --jorge