[split] Line padding, layout, Currier's "groups of letters"...

[Aga Tentakulus]

The theory of copying is misguided.
It is already apparent in the first book, and the second page where I looked it up.
There, too, the stretching occurs, and words are simply separated wherever possible.

For the one who couldn't read it didn't matter anyway, and the one who could read where knew it was going on.
This seems to be strange only by today's standards.
You have to read the books to understand it.