HI Roger, Oh, no, no, please don't insert spaces. In print, it's optional to have spaces, but in order to comply with current braille code, we agreed long ago to use the em dash or two hyphens without spaces around it. Please continue with this practise. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:10 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Handling the M Dash In the past we were asked to replace the M dash with a double hyphen. As I understand it the Bookshare tools do that now so it is not necessary to eliminate them. However, I am wondering something. If there is no space before nor after the M dash, that is, if the two words that the M dash separates become one long word with the M dash in the middle of it with no spaces, what should we do? Do we insert the spaces or just leave it like that? To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.