[bookshare-discuss] Re: em dashes and numbers
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:39:42 -0600
Hi Cindy,
Tthe only one I could tell was in tthe last sentence where you say em, and
you may have spelled that out. The other examples just look like the dash
or hyphen and double dash. I turned Grade 2 on and they still looked the
same. Can you tell a difference when you look at them in print, if you use
the en or em instead of thhe hyphen?? It is interesting to me.
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] em dashes and numbers
Hi, Sue,
It's not really before a number but in a number like
an age. I always used a dash in twenty-four, for
example, but when we had this discussion a little
while back and I looked up the various kinds of dashes
in the dictionary I found that the en dash, which I'd
never used, was the proper thing to use in such
numbers, e.g. twenty-four. (I'm not sure if you can
see the difference in this e-mail. I think they don't
show up; if not, I'll send samples in an attachment.
Also, as I said, in compound words that aren't
combined into whole words. Apparently hyphens are,
technically, only used to divide words at ends of
lines, which we don't do for bookshare. However, I'm
sure most people would see not to bother -- that
hyphens and double dashes for the em dash is fine to
use.
Cindy
-- siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Cindy,
>
> I don't know what you mean by em and en dashes
> before a number, but if you
> could sennd me a sample like you would do it, I can
> tell you how it looks on
> a braille display with and without contracted
> braille. Just a thought.
>
> Sue S.
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