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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