[bksvol-discuss] Re: long dashes.
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:35:13 -0800
Hi Jamie!
Great points! Thanks! And thanks for answering concisely
for me whether you seeing people can see the difference between em
dashes and double hyphens. I love it when communication works!
Peace,
Mayrie
At 03:09 PM 3/6/2008, you wrote:
My local newspaper, The Morning Sun, uses a double dash instead of
an em dash in their print version of the paper. It's true that a
double hyphen is what an em dash always was before we had computers
and printers.
Word automatically converts a double dash to an em dash unless you
tell it not to do so.
With a very old typewriter you could easily tell it was a double
dash but with good print quality, I don't think you can easily tell
if you're looking at a double dash or an em dash unless you look very closely.
I think if you're going to use the argument that you have to keep it
as it is in print then you have to keep everything that is in the
print version including where a line ends on the page, headers,
footers, where the page number is located (even if it's in the
margin in the middle of the page), etc.
At some point you have to say what is a workable book and what is
not? If an em dash is not workable in braille, just like smart
quotes are not workable in braille, then you have to take that into
consideration.
Jamie in Michigan
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