[bksvol-discuss] Re: More Questions about proofreading.
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:25:44 -0500
Valerie, your understanding is the same as mine regarding the em dash and the
ellipsis. There are generally no spaces before or after the em dash in print
books, nor in the braille books that I've seen produced by NLS; so that is how
I believe they are supposed to be rendered.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Valerie Maples
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Madeleine Linares
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 3:19 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More Questions about proofreading.
Now I am *so* confused, Cindy! I thought we were to remove spaces before and
after an em-dash. Ugh! Hope I have not been doing it wrong; some of my books
have tons of them. I thought the only thing we put spaces before and after are
most ellipsis, with certain exceptions like next to quotation marks. Hopefully
Madeleine will set the record straight!
Valerie
On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:42 AM, Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As someone may have explained; the em dash indicates a pause in thought
between 2 phrases or ideas; similar to but different from elipses. There
should be a space before and after the em dash so the words don't run together;
if you have a book in which that's not the case you should report it to quality
control so the book can be fxed
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:16 PM, <ohio1803@xxxxx> wrote:
You folks are amazing. I really appreciate how hard you all work.
I appreciated reading the posts on this thread. How important and serious
this business. To make all of our reading material just as fine as it can be.
Thank you!
I have not tried to proofread a submitted book for quite some time.
I am still baffled and confused by it all, and have just continued to do
the best job I can in scanning some books that I want to read, and to prepare
the book in the best condition that I can, based largely in part as to what I
understand is best for acceptance the proofreader’ time.
This thread showed me I think that it is still best to move page numbers
to the top of the page.
As to the m dash, I have never done anything with them, but had wondered
what was to be done. I do find them often an irritant to the reading
experience, hearing the words running together, sometimes to even make it hard
to understand the words.
Thanks again.
Rik
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