[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question for Braille Readers

  • From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:08:35 -0400

In the book I'm just finishing up, the em dashes have no spaces, except if the em dash comes at the end of a sentence. The character may begin a sentence, then interrupt him/herself and start a new one, then there's en em dash with a space following it. I don't recall seeing this before, but writing styles differ greatly and it may just be that noone else I have thus far read has their characters doing that kind of thing very much.


Evan

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:40 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question for Braille Readers


Hi Kathy,

I think that in print the em dash is not supposed to have spaces surrounding it. Some books have the extra spaces to keep margins justified. I think that is what G. Cindy and Jamie said in the past.

Peace,
Mayrie

At 08:23 PM 3/24/2008, you wrote:
They have a space on each side of them, I think, but I'd recommend just
leaving them alone. Most of us Braille readers are used to seeing them that
way by now, I expect.  Braille usually doesn't have spaces before or after
the dashes, but I think that's largely for space conservation.

Kathy



----- Original Message -----
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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