Editing Voynich manuscript (section)

=== Steganography ===
This theory holds that the text of the Voynich manuscript is mostly meaningless, but contains meaningful information hidden in inconspicuous details—e.g., the second letter of every word, or the number of letters in each line. This technique, called [[steganography]], is very old and was described by [[Johannes Trithemius]] in 1499. Though the plain text was speculated to have been extracted by a [[Cardan grille]] (an overlay with cut-outs for the meaningful text) of some sort, this seems somewhat unlikely because the words and letters are not arranged on anything like a regular grid.<!--Why does it need to be regular? Any grid could function for the obviously ingenious writer of this manuscript--> Still, steganographic claims are hard to prove or disprove, because [[stegotext]]s can be arbitrarily hard to find.

It has been suggested that the meaningful text could be encoded in the length or shape of certain pen strokes.<ref>{{harvnb|Banks|2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Vogt |first=Elmar |date=22 September 2009 |title=An Outline of the Stroke Theory as a Possible Method of Encipherment of the Voynich Manuscript |url=https://voynichthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/stroke.pdf |access-date=11 June 2016|archive-date=12 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912154158/https://voynichthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/stroke.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>