A random rant about the VMS

[Rafal]

a n00b scribe with n00b illustration skills could not, in my opinion, have written so incredibly consistently, i.e., without a single mistake on any pages.

It is quite possible that the scribe wasn't understanding what he was writing.
Or he was writing gibberish and knew it or not

In such case he wasn't correcting any errors because he was unable to see any errors.