(17-04-2021, 06:22 PM)geoffreycaveney wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The more extreme version would be a lipogram that excludes all of the letters LANC from the text!
With such extreme constraints, there would be little wiggle-room for more constraints, but we actually see the opposite in the VMS: vord statistics and glyph mono- and bigrams statistics show an evolution and a lot of variation in frequency that stand out at the quire, page, sometimes even at the paragraph level. Some have surprisingly high frequencies, others surprisingly low. Here are some lipograms: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. don't have any EVA-e.
This (0 frequency on a page) happens so often on bigrams that I had this idea that pages could be "lipogrammatically linked" to the next page by the absence of some common bigram.
For example:
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