Kurzweil 1000 recognizes and preserves the long dashes, and JAWS with MS Word also recognizes them. I think the fine Reader software used to replace long dashes with single hyphens, although I don't know if it still does. I also think some validators still replace all long dashes believing them to be incorrect. Peace Deborah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:33 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted another Harry Potter BSO Deborah, I'm glad to know that I am not the only one who doesn't like to see hyphens substituted for dashes. I always fix them myself when I put a book on my Braille Lite, but if I edit them on the computer as I scan, will proper dashes always be identified verbally as either "long dash" or "dash dash?" If these are always distinguished verbally, I will always search and replace while I am scanning to eliminate hyphens where there should be dashes the next time I scan a book for Bookshare. Linda Adams ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx> To: "BookShare" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:14 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted another Harry Potter BSO > Hi all, > > I've just submitted a BSO of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, > although I seem to have had a brain cramp and forgot to put BSO in the > title. > The copy already on BookShare has the irritating problem of all of the > m-dashes (long dashes) having been stripped and replaced by single > hyphens. > I rescanned it and left the m-dashes where they belong. > I've also done all the usual cleanup, so should be a quick and easy > validation. > > Peace > Deborah > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list > of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.