(12-05-2026, 10:48 AM)JoJo_Jost Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Patrick Feaster (Griffonage 2020) provided a list of 7 rules that predicts ~95% of mid-word breaks.
This seems to be 'Ruminations on the Voynich Manuscript', August 24, 2020 ( You are not allowed to view links.
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This page does not give seven rules on word breaks. The web page consists of seven parts that "could easily have been seven separate posts" but the author "combined them all to avoid clutter". The discussion on word breaks, line breaks, paragraph breaks, labels together forms just one of the parts, of which the discussion on word breaks forms just a part of this part.
His conclusions:
1. "Word breaks are mostly predictable based on simple rules of glyph adjacency."
2. "Word breaks vary in their degree of certainty... I infer that the writer somehow found it more compelling to leave spaces between some pairings of glyphs than others."
3. "Certain combinations of glyphs demand spacing."
He initially posed himself the question, "Do spaces ever convey any information that could be required for interpreting the text, or are they wholly predictable?". His answer is that they are predictable: "glyph adjacencies seem to be a good predictor of word breaks". And this is where he claims the 95% success rate.