[bksvol-discuss] Re: all those darn dashes re revisited
- From: Misha <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:07:55 -0800
Bud,
What you sent apparently has the dashes removed and thus, the words run
together. All three cases that I see (mocassins--black--and,
that--you, violence--only) are where one might use dashes, though in
typical US English, a single space or comma would do. So, from that
perspective, I'd say, leave them in.
I don't have any K1000 experience, so I can't say anything about why
it's conversion to rtf would remove the dashes, except to say, at least
in this case, it does not seem to be what you want.
But, hey, it's supposed to be a mystery...right?
Misha
Bud Schwab wrote:
Hi gang again.
Here is a page of the bookwith a couple of those dashes for an
example. Strangely enough after I converted it from .kes to .rtf it
seems to read better and pronounce them as two words. Wonder why that
would be. Maybe they'll read ok since it will all be in .rtf.
Oh well!
Bud
P. S. I just looked at this page that I changed from .kes to .rtf and
now the dashes are gone and the two words are run together One
instance is near the bottom where it says violence and only run
together as one word. Therer's another one about in the middle of the
page also. . The mystery deepens.
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*of *black oxfords, another pair of moccasinsblackand some sneakers.
Palliser had a look at them but couldn't see anything suggestive. He
stashed them all in a plastic evidence bag and they drove back
downtown to drop them off at the lab. Then they went up to that
Thrifty in Hollywood to talk to Wells. He wasn't as amiable as before,
when Palliser asked questions over again. "What the hell you want with
my shoes, anyway? I didn't know cops could go right in a person's pad
and just steal stuff."
"You'll get them back," said Galeano easily. `We may want to borrow
the ones you're wearing too. Are all those the only shoes you've got?"
"For Gossakes, what am I supposed to do till then? I don't know why
you guys are bothering me, I never had anything to do with thatyou
know what I mean. I haven't done anything at all."
"So you've got nothing to worry about," said Galeano in a friendly
tone. "We can't prove you did anything. We're just looking around, Wells."
"So you can go and look around somewhere else."
"You'd like us to find out who killed your grandmother, wouldn't
you?" asked Palliser.
"Oh, sure, sure, I sure hope you do. But I told you where I was that
night, you asked Mae and she told you, we were out at that disco all
the time."
"Yes, we know you were."
"Then why are you bothering me? Go stealing my shoes! Cops! When do I
get them back?"
"When we're finished with them," said Galeano. They went back to the
parking lot and sat in the car and Palliser switched on the engine for
the air conditioning. "In a sort of way," said Galeano, "I see what
you mean, John. Another Baby Face. A little too innocent to be true,
but on the other hand"
"Oh, I know, I know," said Palliser. "He's got no remote history of
violenceonly that one little count on him, and it's an honest upright
family."
"What the hell is all this business about shoes?"
"I've got no idea," said _Palliser. __"It was Duke suggested it. He
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Bud Schwab
W 6 Z Y P
Malibu, California
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