[bookshare-discuss] Re: What is an M-dash
- From: "Dinky" <dinky88@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:55:48 -0400
Hey Guido Corona don't know about dashes, but your name is like Paul Simon's
song. Bet Mrs. Corona likes to sing along and it ain't "me and Julio down
by the school yard. Speaking of which I love Neil Simon's plays and could
read them for days like folks like you collect gloves of Willie Mays.
*smile*
Dinky
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From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:16 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What is an M-dash
> 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.
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> Regards,
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> Guido
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> Thanks,
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> Guido
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> Guido D. Corona
> IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx.
> IBM Research,
> Phone: (512) 838-9735
> Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at:
> http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html
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> Rick Roderick
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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.
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> Rick Roderick,
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