[bksvol-discuss] Fw: A question from a fellow volunteer
- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:48:51 -0800
Kim, here is your answer about em/En Dashes. Hope this Helps.
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“If you go without playing the trumpet for one day, no one knows, two days,
only you know, and more than three days without practicing, girl you better
look out, because everyone will know!”
Today, I find myself constantly saying those words, just to get myself
going, to not give up, and it works. Since I learned to play the trumpet at
the tender age of 10, I have spent so much passion and much diligence with
that instrument that I will not give up on it. Sometimes my instrument puts
me into awkward situations where I feel like they won’t ever end, but the
trumpet gives me a lot of hope with the majestic, crystal-clear sound it
brings to my ears.
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Chela Robles
E-Mail: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx
MSNWindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx
Skype: jazzytrumpet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr Bil" <ceartbhrigh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: A question from a fellow volunteer
An 'em' and an 'en' were old typesetting terms used when lead spacers were
inserted between letters before print went to press. In these days of
computerized publishing and digital typesetting the terms are no longer
used.
A single hyphen is used to conjoin two closely joined words, like a
hyphenated name. The hyphen in braille is just dots 3 and six in one cell
The double hyphen is sometimes used, seldomly correctly to separate
words...I used a double hyphen instead of a single when I am showing some
relation, but an actual separation.
Almost all those needs are taken care of by a simple hyphen in braille
Dr Bil
--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: A question from a fellow volunteer
To: ceartbhrigh@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 7:02 PM
Hello, a fellow bookshare
volunteer who is totally
blind is wondering what the differences in context and why
in context the
following is: Dash, En Dash, Em Dash, Hyphen. She is
proofreading a book and she
had asked no one has answered her yet other than just to
replace it with
something else due to the bookshare tools not properly
retaining it or something
but she just wants to know for her knowledge and I wish to
answer her to the
best of my ability as well.
Hope you have a great
Christmas,----------------
“If you go without playing the trumpet for one
day, no one knows, two days, only you know, and more than
three days without
practicing, girl you better look out, because everyone will
know!”
Today, I
find myself constantly saying those words, just to get
myself going, to not give
up, and it works. Since I learned to play the trumpet at
the tender age of 10, I
have spent so much passion and much diligence with that
instrument that I will
not give up on it. Sometimes my instrument puts me into
awkward situations where
I feel like they won’t ever end, but the trumpet gives me
a lot of hope with the
majestic, crystal-clear sound it brings to my ears.
----------------
Chela
Robles
E-Mail: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx
MSNWindowsLive Messenger: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx
Skype:
jazzytrumpet
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