[bookshare-discuss] Re: What is an M-dash

  • From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:16:55 -0500

OK volunteers,  but please leave long dashes intact in any submissions to 
Bookshare, or during editing/approval sessions.  That is,  please do not 
convert long-dashes in TXT or RTF submissions into single or 
double-dashes.
In modern typesetting,  long-dashes are  used to delimit subordinate 
clauses,  or in lieu of elipsis at the end of quoted sentences.
Short dashes are used for createing compound words.  The two are used in 
different ways for prosodic flow by TTS engines.  Double short-dashes are 
the country cousins of long-dashes:  They have the same meaning as long 
dashes but look ugly.  A conversion from long-dashes to an appropriate 
braille symbol should be performed instead by the Bookshare tool which 
creates the BRF output files for Braille users.
If the conversion tool does an inadequate job in this area, it should be 
fixed.

Regards,

Guido


Thanks,

Guido


Guido D. Corona
IBM Accessibility Center,  Austin Tx.
IBM Research,
Phone:  (512) 838-9735
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Rick Roderick 
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09/28/2004 02:46 PM
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The em-dash symbol is one to avoid in braille.  Word, by default, were 
turn two hyphens into it.  It can be turned off in the format menu and 
options.  In braille, I believe it comes out, in some translators, as a 
single hyphen.

Rick Roderick, 
Louisville, KY
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