Generators and Positional Tendencies

[Mauro]

I'm curious how the generator theories can account for the positional tendencies people here keep finding, and I didn’t want to blow up someone else’s thread about their generator. 

Markov chain generators don't account for positional tendencies. Ie. my generator works purely word-by-word and indeed it fails badly @quimqu's position-based tests. One could tweak these generators to get positional dependencies I guess, but see @oshfdk post above, it'd probably be an exercise in futility over an exercise in futility.

Timm Torsten's generator has explicit rules to account for some of the positional tendencies: iirc it pre-defines where paragraphs will begin in the text and preferentially starts a paragraph with a gallows. It also fares much better than Markov chains at @quimqu's tests, but I think this is due much more to the copy-and-modify mechanism itself than to the 'gallow at paragraph start' rule (which imo just 'beautifies' the text). I think this method has the potential for creating positional tendencies, just I see no smoking guns at the moment.