Re: VMs: Why VMs spaces behave like normal word spaces

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 04 July 2003 10:23, Nick Pelling wrote:
> So: my guess is that most full spaces are fake, and that most half spaces
> are real (mainly to help disambiguate the paired ciphertext).

I think that this is starting to sound a bit Newbold-style. :-)

The spectral analysis of the space-less vms text looks pretty much like 
space-less latin and english and very different from character-scrambled 
texts. 
The token-scrambled space-less vms also is comparable to token-scrambled 
space-less latin and english.(You can even detect verse length in the 
space-less Canterbury tales.)
I see no reason to believe that spaces are not token separators, although I 
also doubt that the vms is a simple character substitution.

Cheers,

Gabriel


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