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