[bksvol-discuss] Re: Handling the M Dash and footnote numbers in the text
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:37:24 -0800 (PST)
a single short dash is a hyphen and should be left alone. Two short dashes,
e.g. -- equals an em dash, which acts as a pause between words or phrases and
many of us convert the em dash to 2 short dashes, but if I remember what I just
read from Mayrie (darn this short-term memory loss) book share now converts the
em dash to 2 short dashes so we no longer have to.
The manual, which I checked again fairly recently, gives a number of options
for what to do with footnote numbers. Some authors use single and double
asterisks instead of footnote numbers, which complicates matters. Especially if
one puts three spaced asterisks to indicate missing lines before the footnote
section.
If I recall correctly, the options for footnote numbers is to put them in
brackets(or parentheses? after the period or to put them on the line *above*
the line of text, or put them in superscript. As a proofreader, I cannot
always tell if they're on the line above the text; it depends on the font used
(some scanners do put them in a smaller font on the line above. I often start
to leave them alone if they are clearly on the line above but then start to put
them in superscript; hopefully having them both ways doesn't make a difference
to the reader-member. As a sighted person they look better and it's less
confusing when they are in superscript.
Cindy
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> From: Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Friday, December 2, 2011 8:21 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Handling the M Dash
>
>I get so frustrated with some of these discussions!
>I read in the manual that the converter takes care of converting dashes to
>m-dashes. Therefore, I have been leaving the single dash alone just being
>sure that it is not proceeded or followed by a space. Now I get the
>impression that I should be changing these single dashes to two dashes. Why
>doesn't the manual say that?
>
>Then I read that some people put a footnote number in brackets (a prior
>thread), some preceed the foot note number by a star. I have been doing what
>the manual says, putting each footnote number in parentheses and putting a
>space between the prior word or punctuation and the opening parentheses.
>
>I don't always agree with how the manual does things, and I sometimes find it
>hard to find things in the manual, but I do my best to adhere to it, but then
>get the impression what I do is not correct!
>
>Lori C.
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 6:53 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Handling the M Dash
>
>
>> Hi Sister Dolores,
>>
>> I'm confused, again by the use of the word dash. Sorry. What I am saying
>> is that the em dash, written in print as a long dash, should be represented
>> by two hyphens. Sorry I don't completely understand your question, and hope
>> I've answered it satisfactorily.
>>
>> Mayrie
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dolores Dean
>> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 6:06 AM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Handling the M Dash
>>
>> Mary, Are you saying that the dash (as we know it in braille) should take
>> the place of the m-dash. I had been doing that but thought I was incorrect.
>> I'm a braille reader and this is what comes natural to me.
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Sister Dolores
>>
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