[split] What can the structural peculiarities of the VMS tell us about the nature of the underlying text

[nablator]

I don't follow the logic.

There was no need to modify the text in a "complicated" way so it would fit in the available space in any text of any manuscript or book, ciphered or nor, especially when it didn't need to be perfectly justified (the VMS isn't) so why would there be a need for a "complicated" Scribe's "algorithm" for writing Voynichese if it represents normal text of an unknown language?

Well, if the Scribe's previous experience with Latin had conditioned him to avoid splitting syllables, and he did not understand the Voynichese script, then he would have avoided splitting words on the VMS, since he could not tell where the syllable boundaries were.

The "trivial algorithm" and a little flexibility in space size would be sufficient. No perfect justification is required, so no complicated word breaking algorithm is needed.