The GP is talking about how the text was written with hyphens inserted where words crossed a line break, but then the text was reflowed so the lines no longer b

The GP is talking about how the text was written with hyphens inserted where words crossed a line break, but then the text was reflowed so the lines no longer break at the same spot. For example, in the original, it looked something like this: an ex- ample But on GP's (and my) screen it looked like this: an ex-ample