[Blog Post] Peter Bakker on the VMS

[ReneZ]

Me, I'm still bemused by our inability to properly account for the first glyph of each line

Yes, there is much to be learned there still.

The statistics that have been presented in the past are unfortunately 'contaminated' because they are for all lines, i.e. including the first lines of paragraphs.
The behaviour is different there.

A 'first-character' effect for all except first lines of paragraphs exists, but is much more subtle.
The average word length for these words is barely higher than that of other words.