in reply to Mystery Novelist seeks ELS generator

It shouldn't be difficult, if you reverse the problem. Instead of approaching it from the "I have XYZ text to be hidden and I want to use a distance of NNN, how do I create a text?", why not approach it from the "I have XYZ text to be hidden and here is a corpus for me to try and hide it in, where should I start and what should my distance be?"

In other words, start with your message and your corpus and then have a program that figures out where in the corpus you should start and what your distance will be.

The rest, imho, is a first-year programming exercise.

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