They are not really the same thing. My long experience with print books
before I became blind tells me that the dash is always longer than the
hyphen. The trouble is that keyboards don't distinguish between them.
Way back when I was taking typing class in high school I think there was
one typewriter that actually had both a hyphen and a dash on its
keyboard. I was never lucky enough to use that typewriter though. We
were instructed that when a dash came along we were to use a double
hyphen in place of it and I think Bookshare accepts double hyphens in
place of dashes or M dashes. With that said, though, I have no idea how
to search for one and exclude the other in a computer text unless one
can be sure that dashes are represented by double hyphens.
On 11/29/2017 9:14 PM, Ann Parsons wrote:
Hi Larry,
hyphens and dashes are the same thing.
Ann P.
