[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question for Braille Readers
- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:03:51 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:01 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question for Braille Readers
After all this discussion, I am going to make an effort to change the
long
dash into two hyphens in books that are going to be read by the
students.
Personally, I don't think it matters that much for those of us who
have been
reading braille most of our lives. Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allison Hilliker" <bookshare_girl@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question for Braille Readers
> Sue, Thanks for the info. It's good to know how NLS does their
> dashes.
> So, then my next question is, what does everyone prefer? Should I
> create
> double dashes as NLS does, or simply leave things as is?
>
> Either is fine with me as replacing em dashes won't take too much
> time.
>
> Best,
> Allison
>
>
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> From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:22 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question for Braille Readers
>
>
>>
>> Hi Allison,
>>
>> What the National Library Service does in their Braille books is to
>> use
>> two
>> hyphens or dashes where the em dash would be. For example, in this
>> word--word. But people have been leaving them as they appear in
>> the
>> book,
>> and you are right, they translate to a single hyphen or dash. So
>> when we
>> do
>> that, the hyphen or single dash and the em dash look the same.
>>
>> In Word, when I have a file with em dashes in it, they look like a
>> capitalized dash or hyphen on my Braille display. It has dots 7
>> and 8,
>> so
>> it looks like dots 3, 6, and 8.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Sue S.
>>
>> ----- 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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