Re: VMs: Latin abbreviations

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 July 2003 16:42, Larry Roux wrote:
> You could translate the shorthand sentence to "and then three were awards"
> instead of "and then there were words" but if the previous sentence was "In
> the beginning there were Letters" then your translation makes little sense.

Yes, but one would still be uncertain as to whether the previous sentence was 
properly translated. If one gets the previous wrong, the following would be 
wrong as well (because we would try to make the previous part fit).
In all, I guess that there are too few abbreviation symbols in the vms code to 
encode such a piece of text of the size of the vms, even if the same symbol 
encodes more than one letter/group.

While Brumbaugh thought that he had a table that worked, I am saying that we 
cannot be certain, even if we get the right table. :-(

Cheers,

Gabriel

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