Hyphen Confusion

A small example of confusion between the 'separating' hyphen and the 'joining' hyphen. maybe I'm just stupid

Context

Hyphens have two primary use cases:

  1. Joining text, for example in compound modifiers like object-oriented programming or thin-crust pizza.

  2. Separating text, primarily when wrapping lines through breaking word (hyphenation/syllabification).

Scenario

You can probably see why I did a double take upon reading this paragraph in a research paper [1]:

  1. For those curious, it's Digital Green: Participatory Video for Agricultural Extension (PDF)

A paragraph containing a line ending in "person-", with the next line starting with "only"

If you're still confused, the first sentence ends in

... a factor of six to seven times over a classical person ‍-‍only agriculture extension.

My brain picked up the hyphen as being used for separating rather than for joining, and read the sentence as

... a factor of six to seven times over a classical person‍only agriculture extension.

I'm not sure why this scenario hasn't manifested itself in such a visible way before. For example, if I saw "object-oriented" with "object" and "oriented" split across multiple lines, I don't think I would have read it as "objectoriented".

Who knows, duck.