Good luck, Dave. BTW, what is Daisy? I know it's an alternate way of reading, but I've never asked before. I gather it's not Braille; is it audio? THe trouble with eats, shoots is that there's no way to tell the difference between proper and improper ways of using the apostrophe (though that section is really funny --the author writes with wonderful humor) unless the punctuationis turned on, which I would think is relaly annoying -- or to hve a sighted friend or spouse read it aloud. Cindy -- talmage@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi Cindy, > > Not too teacherish, but you have caused me to want > to re-read the copy of > "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," that you cleaned up. In > particular, I wanted to > go over the sections on hyphens and apostrophes > again. This time I even > downloaded the Daisy version, so in converting it to > TXT I wouldn't > introduce the conversion errors that I had last time > when I back translated > from BRF. > Thanks for your efforts in cleaning up that one. > > Dave > > At 01:57 AM 6/24/2005, you wrote: > >Yes, hyphens shold be eliminated, ,even when they > are > >at the end of a sentence or the end of a page. > Close > >up the word and put it on one lineor page or the > >other. EM dashes -- wich separate phrases, should > be > >reatined, however. > > > >Some compound words, however, that are now put > >together used to be hyphenated, and they should > remain > >hyphenated. An example might be place-cards > insread > >of placecards, or make-up (cosmetics) instead of > >makeup. And, of course, compund words when they > are > >adjectives instead of by themselves ae hyphenated, > >e.g., sixteen-ton truck. > > > >I'm afraid my examples aren't very good -- maybe > >make-up is always hyphenated, but you get the idea. > >Where i owuld be confusing to have the words > >together, because they voice reader might read them > >incorrectly, e.g., reestablish instead of > >re-establish, a hyphen is helpful. > > > >I hope I don't sound too "teacherish". > > > >Cindy > > > ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com