an m - is the width of the print letter m, an n dash is the width of an
n. In braille it should be represented by a -- (dots 36, dots
36). Does bookshare's translator do this?
Ner
At 03:44 PM 6/16/2004, you wrote:
Yes, a long dash or m-dash is a prettier version of the old dash-dash. But you can't find one directly from the keyboard. Some programs like MS Word, let you encode one by simply typing two dashes. Yet I do not know how a long dash is reproduced in Braille. but the text 'm-dash' is not what the braille decoder should put on a line.
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In most of the books that I scan, I notice what says it's an m dash.
It should be the double dash, but this "m dash" when translated to
braille just shows the two words without a space or dash or anything
between them. Is there an m dash on the keyboard, and would I replace
it with two dashes, or would there be a space before and after the two
dashes?
Pam
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