(16-04-2026, 04:56 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Quote:So it seems that two things are happening at the same time. Lines fill the available space, but they also tend to end and start with specific families of patterns.

Thanks for doing these tests!  But indeed we should expect the VMS to have stronger line-end anomalies than those that are created by the simple line-breaking algorithm.  Because the real algorithm has two more complications.

First, the m character is probably an abbreviation for some other ending, that the Scribe could use when needed but also just when he felt like it.   I guess that the "some other ending" is iin.  That is, where the trivial algorithm said

  1. If the next word W fits in the remaining space, write W,
  Else break the line and write W.