Thanks all for your responses. I am sighted so I'm thinking this
doesn't apply??
Debbie
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paula and
James Muysenberg
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:10 PM
To: Bkvol
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: m-dashes
At the risk of prolonging the agony: I've discovered in the past few
months that some speech synthesizers also handle M-dashes poorly. Some
synths, when they encounter two words connected by an M-dash, will drop
the
first letter off the second word, making it hard to tell what the word
is
supposed to be. The problem goes away, when you replace M-dashes with
double
hyphens.
Paula
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: m-dashes
> Hi all,
>
> Let me just answer this one, as I dragged the monster from under the
> bed. Debbie, we're talking about M-dashes those funny dashes that are
> longer than normal dashes. We're not talking about single hyphens.
If
> you're using a screen reader, it will tell you when you get an m-dash.
> These symbols do not do well when the book is converted to braille,
and
> so it is best to replace them with two hyphens.
>
> I sure hope this doesn't spawn another three day marathon of messages!
> <chagrinned>
>
> Ann P.
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