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

[Jorge_Stolfi]

That's a really interesting theory - but does it actually fit the distribution of m?

In what sense?

That proposed explanation (m is an abbreviation, used mostly when needed to delay a line break) predicts that m is much more common at line end than in the middle of a line.  To that extent, it seems to agree with that table.  Is there something else that does not fit?

All the best, --stolfi