How do paragraph-initial gallows effect a paragraph?

[rikforto]

I am not even sure that the four gallows that feature as paragraph starters, and the 'same' four gallows that appear in the running text, mean the same thing.

I'm looking at the exceptions to the slot alphabets---with a hypothesis of how to improve them, though far too early to say I've done so---and something nagging me is the very rigid letter order means that in different parts of the word the same sign can have different meanings without ambiguity. I'm not sure this is the right tact for understanding the text, especially given that I'm dissatisfied with the details of how to describe the text. But if you can always tell what part of the word you're in, then you could in theory easily discriminate what use of a gallows (or whatever!) you're looking at based on that.