The existence of text figures (lowercase numbers) suggests a lossless encoding of text to numbers, preserving punctuation and capitalization. Use the straddling checkerboard.
It is not intended to be a strong code, but rather artistic. Perhaps to make text easier to OCR.
We need some escape characters to encode numbers themselves. The straddling checkerboard provides 2 (8+10+10-26) which is just enough for "The next character is a numeral" and "The remainder of this word is a number".
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