[bksvol-discuss] Re: Handling the M Dash

  • From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 08:21:14 -0800

I get so frustrated with some of these discussions!
I read in the manual that the converter takes care of converting dashes to m-dashes. Therefore, I have been leaving the single dash alone just being sure that it is not proceeded or followed by a space. Now I get the impression that I should be changing these single dashes to two dashes. Why doesn't the manual say that?
Then I read that some people put a footnote number in brackets (a prior thread), some preceed the foot note number by a star. I have been doing what the manual says, putting each footnote number in parentheses and putting a space between the prior word or punctuation and the opening parentheses.
I don't always agree with how the manual does things, and I sometimes find it hard to find things in the manual, but I do my best to adhere to it, but then get the impression what I do is not correct! 

Lori C.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 6:53 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Handling the M Dash



Hi Sister Dolores,

I'm confused, again by the use of the word dash.  Sorry.  What I am saying
is that the em dash, written in print as a long dash, should be represented by two hyphens. Sorry I don't completely understand your question, and hope 
I've answered it satisfactorily.

Mayrie



-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dolores Dean
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 6:06 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Handling the M Dash

Mary, Are you saying that the dash (as we know it in braille) should take
the place of the m-dash. I had been doing that but thought I was incorrect. 
I'm a braille reader and this is what comes natural to me.
Thank you.

Sister Dolores

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