Hacking at the Voynich manuscript - Side notes
073 VMS page descriptions for the 25e1 release (appendix - comments from .evt)

Last edited on 2026-01-16 18:45:27 by stolfi

RECOVERING COMMENTS FROM THE TEXT FILES

  We have the follwing text files with extensive comments in them, 
  that should be merged with these:
  
    ../074/text25e1.ivt
    ../074/star25e1.ivt
    ../076/SAVE/2025-07-15-200047/starps-U.eva
    
  Extracting the comments from those files, including the page headers 
  and the locators (without text) of data lines to preserve context:
  
    ./extract_comments_from_25e1_text_files.sh    

        lines   words     bytes file        
      ------- ------- --------- ------------
        11354   41783    264239 cmts25e1-T1.txt
         2421    8653     54345 cmts25e1-T2.txt
          921    1532     13850 cmts25e1-T3.txt

  Making sure that these files have the page headers needed for ]
  split/merge.

  Splitting each file "cmts25e1-${tag}.txt" into separate page files
  in folder "${tag}-pages":
  
    ln -s desc25e1-52.txt cmts25e1-T0.txt 

    ./split_cmts_T0_T1_T2_T3.sh
    
  Checking that pages in each folder are a subset of "page-list.txt":

    cat page-list.txt | sort > .ev-pages

    for tag in T0 T1 T2 T3 ; do 
      dir="${tag}-pages"
      bool 1-2 .${tag}-files .ev-pages > .${tag}-pages.new
    done
    dicio-wc .T*-pages.new
    
  Tweaked things until the lists above came out empty.
    
  Merging all four folders into a single file "desc25e1-53.txt"
  
    ./merge_cmts_T0_T1_T2_T3.sh

      lines   words     bytes file        
    ------- ------- --------- ------------
      32039  212124   1201116 desc25e1-53.txt
      
  Archiving previous stages and scripts:
  
    now="`yyyy-mm-dd-hhmmss`"; echo "now = ${now}"
    # now = 2025-07-15-234437
    mkdir -p SAVE/${now}
    mv -vi desc25e1{,-52,-53}.txt cmts25e1-T{0,1,2,3}.txt SAVE/${now}/
    mv -vi split_cmts_T0_T1_T2_T3.sh merge_cmts_T0_T1_T2_T3.sh  SAVE/${now}/
    chmod a-w SAVE/${now}/*.{txt,sh}