Hi Bud, There is no equivalent punctuation mark for the long dash that I know of, and for the purposes of bookshare, I think that using anything other than the em dash or the double hyphens as we used to have to do in the days of typewriters would be changing the book, which we're not allowed to do. I wouldn't want to make that big a change to any author's book. I think Jackie had it right. I think that the speech synthesizer that you are using will maike the difference in what is spoken, as well as the amount of punctuation that you choose to have spoken. For example, I use in K1000 E.T.I. eloquence with some punctuation spoken. I never hear the long dashes identified, just the pause in the language that they are designed to denote. So, I think that if you want not to hear them spoken as "long dash" you need to change the amount of punctuation that you hear spoken as well as perhaps the speech engine you are using. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bud Schwab Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:43 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Things I Want My Daughter's to Know Hi Gail and others, That long dash is a real problem. It doesn't read right when it's there, at least on my reading setup it doesn't. I have always wondered just what to do also. It does need to show some kind of break there, but those two dashes doesn't do it either. I wonder if a comma or semicoln would be correct there and how one could put it there with the find and replace setup. The book I am currently reading and about to send in has a bunch of those long dashes also. Gail has been very conscientious about validating my last book. I thought I had it pretty clean but she found several things that I had missed. BudAt 06:18 AM 7/10/2008, you wrote: >When I replace the long dashes with -- they are announced. >When the sentence reads it doesn't sound like a pause or anything. Am >I supposed to do womething else to indicate so if this is what long >dash or -- represents? >For example carry-- far. > >-- >Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit >www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. >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. Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California 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.