VMs: structured lines

[Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I have been trying to find information in the mail-list archives about 
VMS line structure and not having much success.

It is said that some letters tend to begin lines, some tend to be at the 
end. Words become shorter toward the end on average. I got a humped line 
a little lower on the right, then an increase. The increase probably was 
due to the transcription having combined glyphs across drawings, which 
is a hard call to make. In known texts, are word lengths the same from 
beginning to end of line? Is there anything definite to characterize 
various languages?

Gabriel Landini wrote that 40 percent of lines ended with "y".
(mail list message, 30 Jul 2001) and gave counts for the other letters.

What else?

As word and suffix, "ary" occurs on 141 lines
62 times as "ary-"
49 times as "ary="

. . . which indicates some common influence for, for instance: 
"qotedary", "orary", "otaldary", and "otydary". Maybe the tinker-toy 
appearance of words in general is because they are detachable components 
connected in various ways to suit a mad poet for whom standard words and 
letters were insufficient.

I have not checked -- some of this might indicate that the method of 
finding beginning and ending words on the circles is correct.

But is there anything more to line structure? Can someone point me to 
the information?

Regards ......... Knox



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