Summary of Voynich Day presentation on Line Patterns

[tavie]

Thanks for everyone's comments and suggestions; there's a lot of thought-provoking stuff!

This isn't the final version of the table, since I need to go through and check for consistency in how mis-alignments (like Marco's second Scribe 3 example with the right-aligned text) and large image breaks are treated, but I don't think this will affect the larger gaps. Thanks also to Marco for the suggestion of having a column for the actual/expected ratio.

Looking at the ones with the largest surpluses, it's interesting to see that there isn't much reciprocity. e.g.

• o-q has the huge extra surplus in Scribe 1's Herbal A of about 38, while q-o has only about 8 extra.  q-o is the most popular q-? pair but Scribe 1 appears disproportionately to avoid q-q by turning to q-ch.
  
• d-q has about 19 extra in Scribe 2's Balneological, while q-d is reasonably close to the expected number.  d-q is the most popular d-? pair but q-d is not for q-?.  It is beaten in raw numbers by q-s, and Scribe 2 also appears disproportionately attracted to q-ch and q-sh. 
  
• y-o has about 17 extra in Scribe 1's Herbal A, while o-y is reasonably close to the expected number.  y-o is the most popular y-? pair but o-y is easily beaten by o-q for the most popular o-? pair.