[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question for Braille Readers
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:22:54 -0500
Hi Allison,
What the National Library Service does in their Braille books is to use two
hyphens or dashes where the em dash would be. For example, in this
word--word. But people have been leaving them as they appear in the book,
and you are right, they translate to a single hyphen or dash. So when we do
that, the hyphen or single dash and the em dash look the same.
In Word, when I have a file with em dashes in it, they look like a
capitalized dash or hyphen on my Braille display. It has dots 7 and 8, so
it looks like dots 3, 6, and 8.
HTH,
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allison Hilliker" <bookshare_girl@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question for Braille Readers
Hi everyone,
Quick question for Braille-readers. I do read Braille myself, but I've
never paid attention to this issue before. I'm validating a book with a lot
of em dashes. They look like this. - They usually connect two words like
this. word1-word2. They do not usually have spaces around them. In the
past I have left them as is in the books I validate.
My question is, should I be doing anything special with the em dashes in
order to make them easily read in Braille? I've never known there to be a
special Braille character for the em dash, but there may be one. Does it
just look
like a regular dash, or something else? Do they appear with spaces around
them or not? Would most of you prefer me to add spaces, change the em
dashes to regular dashes, leave them alone, or something else?
Thanks for any feedback you can give.
Best,
Allison
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