> the few readers who lived back then expected it to encode some form of legal or religious prose The Latin literature was extremely rich, from Cicero to Tacit

> the few readers who lived back then expected it to encode some form of legal or religious prose The Latin literature was extremely rich, from Cicero to Tacitus, and was certainly not limited to legal information. Here's part of your comment with white space and punctuation stripped: scriptocontinuamayhaveworkedbecausethefewreaderswholivedbackthenexpectedittoencodesomeformoflegalorreligiousprosebuteventhentheycouldlearnthingsfromtheoverallshapeofthedocumentllmsareworkinginamuchricherdomainofdocumenttypesbuttheonlythingtheycanseeisastreamoftokenstheresnospatialorgeometricdataattachedtheresowhitespaceandpunctuationaretheonlythinganllmhastomakeinferencesaboutotherwisetextuallyidenticalinputs It's a little hard to read, but not that hard. I think one would get used to it. Also, for creative use of LLM, it may be a feature, as trying to find the words could be inspiring. I think it would be worth a try.