My thoughts on the VMS

[ReneZ]

Going back many years, there used to be a statement about the word spaces along the following argument:

given that the label words should be individual words, and they primarily tend to appear in the main text separated by spaces, it seems that the spaces are real.

The problem is that I have never seen anyone really demonstrating this.
This would be a bit of work, but not too difficult to do and it might really tell us something.

All labels can be matched with a version of the main text from which all spaces have been removed.

One can then see how many labels are not found at all, and for the remainder whether there is indeed a preference for them to reoccur separated by spaces.


Depending on the result, the situation could of course not be entirely clear.