#I will repeat what I was told on this list by our now departed Mayrie. She said to leave the m dashes alone and with no spaces between them and the words that they separate. The converter will handle them.
On 11/18/2013 1:42 AM, Cindy Rosenthal 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 fxedOn Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:16 PM, <ohio1803@xxxxx <mailto: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*