[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Em-Dash
- From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:50:20 -0500
Even if it says em dash, often the hyphen says "dash." I would find that much
less stressful, as a student or anybody else, than to hear 1 am going to the
store. We have a thriving cornmunity here. Or Thornas Merton. Or to have a
buinch of garbage that has been left in carrot tilde, etc, for no apparent
reason. This is just not that big a deal for me, but of course you could get
days worth of response on it. I suspect each of us is different. And, of
course, I'm not Evan.
Cindy Lou Ray. Each day is a new adventure.
----- Original Message -----
From: siss52
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:59 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Em-Dash
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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