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Originally Posted by shalym
Why would the author/formatter ever be inserting hyphens into the text? Does he/she know what size font I use?
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They may not have. It sounds like this particular author was using the larger em-dashes in some compound words. I was just responding to a previous poster's description of the book and trying to speculate what may have caused double-hyphens at the end of some lines.
Em-dashes where normal hyphens should go would
definitely mess with my reading experience. Same as using periods where commas should be would. Messes with the flow of traffic when the signals are switched about.