Syllabification

[Helmut Winkler]

There are very few things about the VMS that I am sure of (most things I am unsure about, actually) but I AM sure that whoever devised the script was familiar with Latin abbreviations.

Well,  something similar I have been saying for some time and was brushed down by the head coach. But you  have  to take the logical conclusion that the VMs is written in a Gothic script of the 15th c. and is at least partly readable.  No unknown or invented scripts and why not take the script at its face value?