A key to understand the VMS

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@ Finally Torsten

It is to be expected that the scribe would run out of space at the end of a line. Therefore it is remarkable that the end of the lines nearly always fit into the available space. In addition, on many pages the text is placed around illustrations (see for instance figure 1 on p. 1). In such cases, the available space was also limited. Therefore it would be no surprise if sometimes the last glyphs in a line were squeezed into the available space. However, there are no such crowded places in the VMS. This behavior was described by Currier in 1976 as follows:
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For me and all of you this should be obvious:

This relates to simple math you can use glyph s which add up for a word and I also believe that the most infrequent glyph's at times maybe associated with what is described in the quote above.