[bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions
- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:02:14 -0700
Okay, got it! Thanks.
Lori
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s.
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:40 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions
Hi, Lori,
Sorry for the confusion. Let me see if I can clarify. smile. If you choose, as
a proofreader, you can replace each em-dash with two hyphens. I do that
myself, because I like to go back sometimes and re-read the rtf of a book that
I proofread. But you can choose instead to just leave the em-dashes as they
are. They will get converted to two hyphens by the bookshare conversion tool
after the proofreader uploads it back to Bookshare. The bookshare conversion
tools didn't used to be able to do that, but now they can.
Is that clearer? if not, let me know and I'll try to explain it better.
Judy s.
On 7/27/2012 4:33 PM, Lori Castner wrote:
Judy, I don’t understand what you are saying. You are saying to replace the
mdash with two hyphens and then saying that the bookshare tools replace the
mdashes with two hyphens. I’m missing the difference!
Lori C.
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judy s.
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:07 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions
Hi Reggie, please always replace an em-dash with two hyphens. An em-dash is
always replaced with two hyphens. This hasn't changed. You might be confusing
this with the information that the bookshare conversion tool is able to convert
em-dashes correctly now to two hyphens, so that the proofreader doesn't need to
do that if they don't want to.
Judy s.
On 7/27/2012 3:45 PM, Regina Alvarado wrote:
Hmmmm! There was a decision made a while ago that – (M dashes) did not need the
2 dashes, just one. Perhaps someone took it to heart, not on this list I would
bet, and took both dashes out. I tend to believe it was the proofer. The way
I handle – is I put them up against the word before and after with only one
hyphen/dash. Many, many times I have seen spaces around the 2 dashes. I do
not know if that is scanning or books are being written that way now, but it
helps with reading continuity in Braille to have the spaces taken out.
Reggie
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