I am wholly convinced that the arrangement of the text on this parchment contains one or more elements which will eventually contribute some valuable information to the mystery. The organization of letters, their  size and their disposition on the page have, I am sure, some form of message to pass on.

Antoine Bigou was undoubtedly a very intelligent, capable and methodical man. He was well versed in the art of cryptography although how he came to acquire such expertise is not known. It is also a fact that he went to the most extreme lengths to create a plethora of codes within the parchments and on the Blanchefort Headstones and, for all we know, in many other places too. It is safe to say that one does not simply begin writing one or more parchments of this complexity without having done a very great deal of preliminary research and made many practice attempts to perfect the final product. As I have already mentioned in other places, I feel sure he would have been obliged to work from drafts, perhaps one draft for each code or maybe he condensed them all into just a few documents. The actual creation of the parchments would have been a painstaking job that could not be hurried. So, armed with this information we have before us two out of possibly many coded documents which contain the most elaborate and detailed information. What you see on Parchment 2 is a highly accurate and highly deliberate piece of work. Every mark on the page has been placed there with precision and the structure of the text is as important as the messages it contains.

I am sure there are those of you who will disagree with what I am proposing but there are a number of practical examples I can extract from the parchment to offer as support for my argument. If you look at line 5 you will see that the first 19 letters are quite large and comparatively well spaced. Following this they become slightly smaller and are spaced slightly closer together. By the end of the line it is clear that he was struggling to make everything fit and the last 5 letters have had to be squeezed in tightly.  Notice the last letter, an E, which appears to be much smaller that the first letters.

Next look at line 8. This line contains the greatest number of letters in the entire text, 58 in all.

All the other lines are comparatively regular in number ranging from a low of 44 (dots included) on line 21 to a high of 58 on line 8. The regularity of the lines shows a certain amount of consistency in execution, so why did he cram in 58 letters on line 8? If you compare the lines of text above and below, it is immediately clear just how much he has squeezed this text in.

It is obvious even at first glance that it was was quite an effort to make everything fit. In places letters are so close together that they are almost touching. In fact letters 12, 13 and 14 are touching. Strangely he does not seem to have done this in an attempt to make the text more difficult to read. This line is actually one of the easier ones to read.  Now look at line 12.

Here again it was important for him to get the right number of letters on the line, 51 in all. If you look towards the end it is clear that he had to reduce letter spacing drastically to get the final 6 letters in. On every single line he begins by spacing his letters fairly broadly. On the second half of most lines he then begins to make efforts to ensure that he ends up with the correct number of letters. If it was simply the textual content that contained the required information for the reader, then it would not have made any difference one way or the other how many letters were placed on each line or indeed how many lines there were in all. The fact however that he made efforts to get certain portions of text on each of the lines is a clue that the physical arrangement is as important as the textual content.