Hi Linda,I have found that you don't actually need to read the entire book to turn hyphens into long dashes where they need to be. Those pesky hyphens where there should be long dashes really get to me. Using either a screen reader, or braille, the flow just irks me when there ought to be that minuscule pause, and it isn't there. I put a hyphen into the find dialogue, and look at each occurrence. I can usually tell, just by looking at the words that are hyphenated, whether they are a legitimate compound word, or ought to be a long dash. If the hyphen actually should be a hyphen, I just leave it alone. If not, I add another dash where it ought to go. You can use f3 after either correcting, or ignoring each occurrence to move on to the next until you manage to find all of the hyphens in the book. I'm sorry, I can't remember which editor you are using, but the f3 function works either in Word or in K1000. It can take a long time, but it is faster than reading the whole book. I generally read the book after doing this anyway. I just don't do it before because I'm bugged by hyphens where long dashes ought to be, as I have said probably too verbosely. When doing this, I have been satisfied with the results. Maybe this helps a little?
Peace, Mayrie At 07:54 AM 6/23/2007, you wrote:
Just adding another hyphen to the one already present seems to be the most straight-forward. In the long run, some editing functions just have to be done reading the book so that one can tell whether the one dash there should actually be a long dash or a legitimate hyphen.Linda Adams ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 12:31 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: long DashOn my keyboard I use Shift,control,dash. Perhaps on yours it would be alt., shift, dash. In one document I sort of made a mistake and in the preferences I had double dash change to em dash, so that happens automatically every time I hit a double dash--so when I find a hyphen I just add another to it and it becomes an em dash. Cindy --- Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Like many others I have long tried various solutions for substitutes for the long [wide?] dash since my keyboard does not have one. All to no avail. Well, I finally found a workable solution: look for the nearest long dash and "copy" - not cut - it and then paste it where you need it. It is so simple I am surprised I had not heard it or read it here and I am sure someone must have posted it but since I never saw it I thought I would share this method with you. Amy omsm____________________________________________________________________________________Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection.http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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.
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