Method · new; compare scribal line-end practice (suspensions, line fillers)

Layout-layer rules and normaliser (minimal line-edge alternations learned on half E; rewrite to the inside form; interior-only text)

New; compare scribal line-end practice (suspensions, line fillers)Version 1.0Licence MIT4 runsUsed on 1 mystery

How it works

Compared with: within-page shuffle of line positions.

Code Python

Download module (.py)layout_layer.pyView source

Runs and results 4 runs

Run	Mystery	Measured	Result	Against	Date
RUN-258	Voynich	Share of line-edge words rewritten, by Currier language and scribe (whole book)	line start A 0.40, B 0.47; line end A 0.10, B 0.16; line end by scribe 1 0.10, 2 0.12, 3 0.20, 4 0.18, 5 0.15		28 Oct
RUN-256	Voynich	Inductive battery (13 methods) on half C: raw, normalised, interior	topics.nmi_section: 0.302 / 0.402 / 0.493; topics.nmi_lang: 0.587 / 0.548 / 0.466; stylometry.nmi_section: 0.327 / 0.556 / 0.615; seriation.axis1_vs_langB: 0.86 / 0.861 / 0.86; paradigms.dependence: 0.361 / 0.367 / 0.368; layout.mi_line_position_first: 0.1042 / 0.029 / 0.0164	Latin / slot / shuffled in the same lines (out/battery_C*.csv)	28 Oct
RUN-249	Voynich	Minimal line-edge alternations kept on half E (share at the edge >= 3x inside, >= 15 stems, z >= 5)	46 rules: paragraph start p-, t-, k-, f-; line start s-, y-, d-, t-, o-, p-; line end -m for -r, -l, -in, -iin, -n, -ir, -dy, -y; -g for -r, -l; -d for -r	562 candidates screened · within-page shuffle	28 Oct
RUN-248	Voynich	Rules found and undone in Latin laid in the same lines, plain and with three planted line-edge rules (half C)	plain Latin: 0 rules, 0.0 rewritten; planted: 8 rules covering all three plants, 75 % of planted words restored exactly, false rewrites 0.0001	Line-position information planted 0.1127 / 0.0293 -> 0.0222 / 0.0054 bits	28 Oct

Applied to

Voynich Manuscript

4 datasetsExploration split, Latin genre texts, Line-edge rules learned on half E (46 minimal alternations at paragraph start, line start and line end), ZL3b transcription