[bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions

  • From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:19:55 -0500

Yup, that makes more sense now! smile.

Judy s.
On 7/27/2012 4:41 PM, Regina Alvarado wrote:

Sorry, Did I say 1 hyphen? The m-dashes look exactly the same in Braille. I change to 2 hyphens but put them up next to the words on either end. Make more sense? (smiles)

Reggie

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*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: proofreading questions

Hi Reggie, please always replace an em-dash with two hyphens. An em-dash is always replaced with two hyphens. This hasn't changed. You might be confusing this with the information that the bookshare conversion tool is able to convert em-dashes correctly now to two hyphens, so that the proofreader doesn't need to do that if they don't want to.

Judy s.

On 7/27/2012 3:45 PM, Regina Alvarado wrote:

Hmmmm! There was a decision made a while ago that -- (M dashes) did not need the 2 dashes, just one. Perhaps someone took it to heart, not on this list I would bet, and took both dashes out. I tend to believe it was the proofer. The way I handle -- is I put them up against the word before and after with only one hyphen/dash. Many, many times I have seen spaces around the 2 dashes. I do not know if that is scanning or books are being written that way now, but it helps with reading continuity in Braille to have the spaces taken out.

Reggie



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