[bksvol-discuss] Re: did Mayrie's thing now more questions
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 01:01:28 -0500
What I am seeing in print, Bob, is an em dash, and those you do convert to two
hyphens (which some people call dashes). I was recently told the tool now
converts em dashes for us.
So many interesting little quirks! (snicker)
Valerie
On May 22, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Bob W wrote:
> I thought you converted optional hyphens (—) to two dashes (--).
>
> Bob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Valerie Maples
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:33 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: did Mayrie's thing now more questions
>
> There is another quirky arrow (not just a straight line), called an optional
> hyphen, and those you DO delete. Maybe those are what you are thinking of or
> have seen, Cindy. I would be interested in learning how it is identified in
> Braille or by speech.
>
> Valerie
>
>
> On May 21, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Cindy wrote:
>
>> I never knew what those little arows were; I though maybe paragraph symbols
>> so I just deleted them, and there didn't seem to be any problem with wha
>> remained.
>> Cindy
>>
>> --- On Sat, 5/21/11, Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: did Mayrie's thing now more questions
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 5:08 PM
>>
>> I am thinking the right pointing error is a tab, and would be replaced by a
>> space unless you want your material formatted as a table, then it can be
>> used for creation of a table.
>>
>> If you are in Word and not wanting to make a table, do a find and replace by
>> putting ^t in the first box and a single space in the second.
>>
>> HTH!
>>
>> Valerie
>>
>>
>> On May 21, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
>>
>>> The right pointing arrows are something you need to eliminate. In word you
>>> just replace all of the ^l with a space, unless it's truly where a
>>> paragraph ends then you replace it with ^p.
>>>
>>> But usually it's a temporary line break so that it looks like the print
>>> book, but is very annoying in braille and needs to be eliminated.
>>
>
>
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