[bksvol-discuss] Re: All this talk of dashes I thought I would dash a note
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:01:38 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Lissi,
Yes, skipping lines between paragraphs, if there is a
lot of dialogue on a page, can cause difficulties with
line length. Sometimes that can be fixed by making the
the side margins shorter, which makes the lines
longer. Sometimes, though, nothing helps.I've gone
quite a way into a validation skipping lines between
pragraphs only to find that nothing I do will work on
a particular page and then I've had to go back and
close the spaces and indent. smile.
Love, Cindy
--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Cindy,
>
> If you held on line grammar and proofing classes I'd
> enroll and never miss a
> one. In lieu of that, I'm heading straight for the
> Bookshare site to
> download, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves." which I've read
> is a clever book.
> Thanks for the heads up that it's in the collection.
>
> I had them fooled after high school and
> proficiencied college English. it
> had to have been a close call because I've never
> used ;s and :s correctly
> and make up most of my grammar as I go along. It's
> never too late to improve
> one's use of punctuation, right? You can look for
> proper use of those little
> marks at the right end of the home keys in my future
> questions.
>
> About the skipping lines to indicate those dashed
> quotes, would the added
> lines make the pages too long? If not, I'll
> definitely hold that thought
> when this situation presents itself again and I'm
> sure it will. I've
> reworked the first fourth of the book I'm validating
> 3 or 4 times. I'm
> losing track. I've done and redone the dashes, m
> dashes, and minuses and
> think I've got them right. After starting with 8,
> then switching to 7 I've
> finally settled on 6 space indents for quotes and 3
> for paragraphs with all
> other lines flush with the left hand margin. That's
> it for this one, but if
> skipping lines to indicate unusual quotes like these
> won't reek havoc with
> the pagination, I'll do it that way in future. It
> will be much quicker than
> spacing 6 times for every quote.
>
> It's been busy and informative on this list today.
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:29 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: All this talk of
> dashes I thought I would dash
> a note
>
>
> > Hi, Katie.
> >
> > I'm not sure your example is a good one. It looks
> as
> > if waterfall is hyphenated because the word
> waterfall
> > came at the end of the sentence. the blue-water
> would
> > mean that the water in the fall is blue.
> >
> > Depending on when and where a book was written,
> some
> > words that we today do not hyphenate, like "today"
> > were hyphenated--"to-day." When I come across a
> book
> > like that I put that comment in the long
> synopsis--I
> > do the same when the words are spelled the English
> way
> > rather than the American way, e.g. when words that
> in
> > American end in o r end in o u r , like the word
> > honor. In a book that Mickey is currently
> validating
> > (I'm helping supply some pages), sometimes the
> > American spelling is used and sometimes the
> English;
> > it isn't consistent. I think she'll put that
> > explanation in.
> >
> > But back to you hyphen question: when one
> adjective is
> > created from two or more adjectives, or from an
> > adjective and a noun, a hyphen is used to indicate
> > that it is one word. For example, a red-eyed bull;
> a
> > twenty-four-year-old girl. In some cases not
> > hyphenating can lead to a different
> > meaning--unfortunately not in the examples I gave.
> > Here's a quote from the seciton on hyphens in the
> book
> > Eats, Shoots and Leaves, an amusing book about
> grammar
> > that is in the bookshare collection: "if it's not
> > extra-marital sex (with a hyphen), it is perhaps
> > extra marital sex, which is quite a different
> bunch of
> > coconuts." Another example she gives is "the
> > pickled-herring merchant," who "can hold his head
> > high," but a pickled herring merchant might be
> > arrested for intoxication, smile
> >
> > hth
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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