01-01-2016, 10:22 PM
These gallows are the field still largely unexplored.
One more consideration: sometimes (but not always!) the one-legged plain gallows (p and f) have increased spacing not only rightwards (which would be explained by the "coverage hypothesis" as described above), but also leftwards.
This suggests that at least in some of the cases these gallows were inserted afterwards - into empty spaces provided in advance. The width of the space was such as to accomodate a two-legged gallows (or even any other character maybe) conveniently; so when a one-legged gallows is inserted there, some spacing is still left to the left or to the right (or both ways), and this becomes notable.
This leads us to the concept of fillers or to the principle of several passes in which the text was written. Maybe this is true not only for the gallows but for other characters as well; one-legged gallows only naturally highlight this circumstance. In fact, many words have increased spacings within, like being "constructed" of several parts.
One more consideration: sometimes (but not always!) the one-legged plain gallows (p and f) have increased spacing not only rightwards (which would be explained by the "coverage hypothesis" as described above), but also leftwards.
This suggests that at least in some of the cases these gallows were inserted afterwards - into empty spaces provided in advance. The width of the space was such as to accomodate a two-legged gallows (or even any other character maybe) conveniently; so when a one-legged gallows is inserted there, some spacing is still left to the left or to the right (or both ways), and this becomes notable.
This leads us to the concept of fillers or to the principle of several passes in which the text was written. Maybe this is true not only for the gallows but for other characters as well; one-legged gallows only naturally highlight this circumstance. In fact, many words have increased spacings within, like being "constructed" of several parts.
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