Levenshtein distance line by line

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It seems that words at the end of lines tend to be shorter also in normal printed texts. I doubt that this in an effect of hyphenation: short words are more likely to be squeezed at the end of a line, where there would not be room for a longer word, but I don't think I ever checked if this assumption is correct.

I had never really thought about this, but you're right. Short words are more likely to be added to the end of the line where there is space for a short word but not for a long one.

In medieval texts, this might be balanced somewhat by words that are continued on the next line, but not every scribe broke words across lines.