Re: creating the – symbol
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:03:05 -0700
1. Thanks for the directions. I'll take a look and see how that works,
though I don't want to enable any of the autocorrect functions I know Word
offers,so I hope it's not one of those intrusive and (to me, at least)
untrustworthy automatic revisions.
2. Sorry to have impugned your knowledge about this, but maybe I
misunderstood something you said in your message, which sounded like the
reverse of the reality, typing "m dash" and "n dash" and warning others that
they were oddly misspelled in that list, as if in a misconceived attempt to
oversimplify by rendering the terms phonetically. Maybe I misread your
message.
You measured your previous life in em dashes? Not coffee spoons? what was
that about, a career as a copy editor at a publisher or newspaper? Or...?
----- Original Message -----
From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: creating the – symbol
It's in Word, tools, autocorrect. There is a list of items that
autocorrect as you type. It says something like hyphens as dash.
I know all about em spaces as I used to measure my life in them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: creating the – symbol
Hi Jerry,
thanks for mentioning that these characters can be found on the Insert
num
row 4 menu; I use that function fairly often, but never go down much
farther
than the inverted exclamation point and inverted question mark when I'm
typing something in Spanish. So I never came across them.
by the way, the proper spelling of these in real life really is em dash
and
en dash. They're traditional typography and editorial terms, and that's
how
they're spelled. it isn't just a random attempt at phonetic spelling or
something. So for those seeking them on the Insert num row 4 list,
pressing
the letter e will get you to them, and that isn't just an optional or
odd
way of spelling them, so you can always depend on that.
Now, may I ask how you find the Word function that allows you to
insertthese
characters as you say, below? thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: creating the – symbol
Those are the M dash and the N dash. You will find with them with insert
4,
but you have to arrow down to find them as they are not under M nor N.
There
is a setting in Word that will creat them automatically. For more on
them...
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/091502.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: Judith Bron
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:18 PM
Subject: creating the – symbol
After reading websites and documents I noticed that the symbol – is
used
often. In some cases the symbol m- is used. What I hav noticed is that
when using the n- (or m-) symbol it is as one character. Does anyone
know
how to create the symbol? I already went into insert 4 and it is not
available there. Thanks in advance for any help, Judith
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