It took me a matter of seconds to replace all my em dashes with hyphen
hyphen with no spaces. So I will happily continue to do that as part of
validating. Now another question. What about ellipses in Braille? That's
the three periods in a row. And what happens with bullets? My next book
has bullets. Is Braille happy with them?
Thanks,
Devorah
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Hi Allison,
I'll add here that the bookshare conversion tools will turn
the em dash, which should be represented in braille by two hyphens
side by side with no surrounding spaces to a single hyphen unless you
replace the em dashes in your books with two hyphens. This
discussion comes up again and again and I, personally, want,
especially, the books that I submit that are geared to non-adults to
come out in accurate braille. I want young readers never to think
that the appropriate representation of a pause in writing should be
by typing a hyphen which they might, if em dashes are not replaced
with double hyphens.
Just myopinion again and again.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 02:08 PM 3/24/2008, you wrote:
In braille the thing should read as two hyphens with no s[paces
between the two words so one--two is how it should read.
Cindy
Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure.
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From: "Allison Hilliker" <bookshare_girl@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question for Braille Readers
Hi everyone,
Quick question for Braille-readers. I do read Braille myself, but
I've
never paid attention to this issue before. I'm validating a book with
a lot
of em dashes. They look like this. - They usually connect two words
like
this. word1-word2. They do not usually have spaces around them. In
the
past I have left them as is in the books I validate.
My question is, should I be doing anything special with the em dashes
in
order to make them easily read in Braille? I've never known there to
be a
special Braille character for the em dash, but there may be one. Does
it
just look
like a regular dash, or something else? Do they appear with spaces
around
them or not? Would most of you prefer me to add spaces, change the em
dashes to regular dashes, leave them alone, or something else?
Thanks for any feedback you can give.
Best,
Allison
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