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

[dashstofsk]

I still think you are thinking too hard.

You have told us recently: it is Bavarian, at least two writers each spoke a different dialect of it; word boundaries are not word boundaries; spaces carry structural information; line start characters indicate how the rest of the line is encoded; it is a position-dependent cipher; it is monophonic; you are "sure" that it is a hybrid cipher-language system where letters or bigrams are substituted mechanically and rule-based.

You seem to have invented one of the most complex theories on this forum. But remember that having written it the writer ( or writers, or their patron ) would then have needed to be able to read it ( otherwise then what was it all for ? ). It would have been nice for them to be able to read it fluently. But this manuscript which took so much trouble to encrypt would now have to take a lot of effort to decrypt and read.

People have tried to be kind to you and drop hints that you might be wasting your time. But you don't seem to be listening.