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by freebasenic 2643 days ago
Similarly, when copying and pasting text from the WSJ website, you get unnecessary dashes within the text. Like this: "Tra-di-tion-ally, lenders have re-quired a borrower to mail things like W2s"
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I bet those dashes indicate how to break the words up for all different window sizes.
I get si-milar dashes - and wordsunexpectedly clumped together - when selecting text from LaTeX-formatted PDF documents too.