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Why do spellings change at the end of a line?

Asked 25 Oct 2026 by ·Part of What did the line and page add?·2 answers·0·0 following
Most likely: -m is a line-final form of -in / -nAhead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

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Copied from an exemplar with different line breaks
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  1. Model and remove the layout layer: normalise line-final forms (-m to -in/-n, F-111) and other line-conditioned variants, then rerun the battery and solvers on the normalised text.
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