You have just discovered a form of very important punctuation that some
people don't ever notice in their reading until they are reading and
editing.
Those special dashes are called em-dashes because they are longer than a
regular dash. These dashes are used in a way that is somewhat similar to a
comma. The reader should pause for me-dashes in order to set off the
addition to the sentence. In order to create them you must either use the
insert option in Word, or use JAWS to insert the character. If you want to
use JAWS you can press insert-4 and pick em-dash from the list. Hitting e
will take you to it with only a few repetitions. If for some reason you
just can't make an em-dash the alternative is to use 2 dashes together.
There should not be spaces between the words and the dashes.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Instructor http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
Hello,
I have seen this in a couple of books I have scanned and the book I have has
these dashes that when reading them with JAWS as "m-" but when you type a
dash it reads as a dash. I am editing this book in Office2003.
Then I am also seeing where a word will be read "recov- er" but when you move by letter it reads as nothing or like a space. I can use delete to remove the " space dash" and it works.
Is there any way to use a replace to pull these out?
Kaitlyn
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-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pat Ferguson Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:32 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating and Paragraph Marks
Hi Sarah and Everyone,
I actually have a macro that the folks at Corel helpped me write for
WordPerfect 6.1 for DOS. It really works. It reformats the lines, and puts
the paragraph breaks as a blank line between 2 paragraphs.
Anyone can have this file if they want it. It might help with other macros,
I don't know, however it's anyone's for free. All ya got to do is ask for
it and I'll email it to anyone who wants it. Perhaps it could be converted
and used for another WordProcesser such as Word or whatever.
The file is called wconvert.zip.
I hope this file can be useful to anyone.
Thanks.
Pat Ferguson
At 03:06 PM 6/9/05, you wrote:Anyone know how to grab a macro from Word on one computer and import it inso
to Word on another computer? I have an idea of how to accomplish the job,
but it is a kind of weird way, and I entend this macro for
distribution to anyone who might like to have it. It is a macro Kellie
and I developed for cleaning up line break desasters in books. The method
shouldn't be used on all books when they are formatted pretty well to
begin with, but if the quantity of white space is making your editing job
a night mare it sure can help.
I suppose I will eventually find the correct method for transfering macros, but if someone knows and wants to help me learn fast it would be appreciated.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Instructor http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Ballard" <MBallard1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:58 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Validating and Paragraph Marks
I'm validating a novel that has a paragraph mark at the end of every
line, even when there is no new paragraph. Although this preserves the
number of words on each line in the original, it could result in a messy
document in other formats. Should I take out those extra paragraph marks-----the text flows continuously until a true paragraph break?
I'm new at validating, so please accept my apologies for bugging you
with questions while I learn how to do this.
Monica
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