[bksvol-discuss] Re: recurring scanning flaw
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:48:03 -0600
JAWS usually says em-dash. See how I wrote that. You can confirm this by
pressing insert-4, which brings up a list of non-typable characters that
JAWS can insert for you. If you press the letter e a few times to go
through the list of characters beginning with an e you will find em-dash.
It is called that because a hyphen, or single dash, is only as wide as the
letter N. The short dash is sometimes even called en-dash. The double or
long dash is called em-dash because it is as wide as the letter m. If you
aren't sure what the character is you can hit the 5 on the num-pad three
times very quickly when on the character. The ANSI number for em-dash seems
to be 151.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
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