[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Em-Dash
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:59:27 -0500
Hi All,
Evan, I am beginning to feel ambivalence about this cottin pickin' em-dash
as well. For me it doesn't matter. I mean, I am a Braille reader and this
dash seems to translate into one dash or hyphen on bookshare.org. So I have
a question. <big sigh> In print, does the em-dash look a lot different
from a double dash or two hyphens? On my Braille display when I validate a
file in Word, it looks like a capital hyphen. My display is an 8-dot cell,
and that is how it looks. So I am wondering how it looks in print. Also,
what does a Daisy speech file say if someone wants to know?
Sorry to bring this up, but it is my concern for students that set me off.
<lol> A student should know the difference in the single hyphen that is
used for compound words and a dash which, in Braille Grade II, is a double
hyphen. I usually validate fiction, but still, I am concerned.
Sue S.
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