[duxuser] Re: Dashes
- From: "Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press" <brailleit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:08:36 -1000
Sending again because I forgot to delete some of the lines before and
it went to the moderator.
Aloha listers,
Thanks for the keystrokes, but this person didn't use anything
consistently. I am just going to have to find them one at a time and
deal with each situation individually. I do understand what you're
explaining, it's just that the original document was obviously
created by someone who needs a bit of word-processing training, Oi!
Betsy
At 07:08 PM 8/4/2006, you wrote:
It sounds like the person who wrote the original document used the
en-dash incorrectly. Either way, it won't translate properly and
you need to do a search and replace in Word to get rid of it. They
probably have used some en-dashes and some em-dashes. An en-dash is
slightly wider than a normal hyphen and is typically used to
separate dates. Example 2003 en-dash 2006. An em-dash is like a
solid dash. Remember when a dash was two hyphens? Well, an em-dash
is two hyphens joined into one solid line in print. These are print
typographical symbols.
To do a search and replace in Word, the keyboard keystroke for an
en-dash is control plus the numpad minus. The em-dash is control
plus alt plus numpad minus. You'll have to figure out and add in
spaces depending on whether you want to get rid of spaces, as well,
but those are the keyboard keystrokes for those two symbols.
Jean
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