[bksvol-discuss] Re: all those darn dashes
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:35:30 -0800 (PST)
What I've been doing is globally replacing double
dashes with em dashes--it's easier than doing them one
at a time. And when I see hyphens that should be em
dashes, usually a space hyphen space, I globally
replace those, too. It means that I may have to later
replace the em dash with a hyphen, but in some books
there are fewer instances od that and it's easier.
G.Cindy
--- liz halperin <lizzersagain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If all those darn dashes, either short dashes or the
> longer em-dashes (which
> I hate), are part of the author's writing style,
> you have to leave them!
> You can't just go ditching them.
> Liz, struggling with the danged em-d ashes in
> current book
>
> Liz Halperin
> Portland, OR
> lizzersagain@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Bud Schwab
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:31 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] all those darn dashes
>
> Hi Gang,
>
> In some books they put dashes between some words, I
> guess in place of
> a comma or something like that. Anyway the book I'm
> scanning now has
> many of them and it doesn't read very well with the
> dashes in there
> It makes sense if you go letter by letter and spell
> it out, but for
> regular reading so often you can't even tell what it
> is saying. I
> had thought of deleting all dashes but then that
> wouldn't leave a
> space between the two words and it would be just as
> bad. Does
> anybody have a good solution for that or should I
> just ignore them
> and scan merrily on?
> Thanks.
>
>
> Bud Schwab
> W 6 Z Y P
> Malibu, California
>
>
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