I did a little Googling and the first result I checked confirms that ANSI
value 45 is the hyphen/minus character. So I'm pretty confident that alt-045
is gonna give you what you're looking for.
Evan
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Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 10:02 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: searching for a hyphen
Will try that. Thanks.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:56 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: searching for a hyphen
Hi Susan,
Turn your numpad on and try alt-045. Hold down the alt key and enter 045 on
the numpad. My K1000 says dash, but I think it is the hyphen. If it isn't
I'll look further.
Evan
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From: Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 9:48 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Ann Parsons
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: searching for a hyphen
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.
