Re: VMs: Spacing (continued)...

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 14 Mar 2003 3:32 pm, Nick Pelling wrote:
> I'm pleased that the idea of letter-based (rather than word-based) spacing
> doesn't clearly post-date the VMS: however, if "space" proves to have no
> meaning (and the text is therefore really just a stream of non-spaces),
> surely we should be very careful when proposing a "grammar"?

I am pretty confident that the spaces mean separation between words (see for 
example the symbol correlation stats: 
http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/cryptol.pdf 

However I am still uneasy about consistently inserted null spaces and 
redundant strings like the dain daiin substitution: 
http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/daindaiin.htm 
or worse: a non-consistently abbreviated script.
Cheers,
Gabriel

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